Imo: APGA, Okorocha seek to stop election

The Imo State political logjam has taken a strange twist as the All Progressives Grand Alliance and its governorship candidate, Chief Rochas Okorocha, on Wednesday invoked the jurisdiction of the Federal High Court in Abuja to stop the Independent National Electoral Commission from conducting supplementary elections slated for the state onFriday.

They warned that unless the court stops the elections, there would likely be a breakdown of law and order in the state.

The party and its candidate in a motion on notice filed by their lawyer, Prof. Francis Dike (SAN), sought two injunctive reliefs from the court.

The plaintiffs asked the court for an order of interlocutory injunction suspending the decision of INEC to conduct “supplementary election or any other election howsoever called on May 6, 2001 or any other date into the office of the Governor of Imo State pending the hearing and determination of the substantive suit.”

They also asked the court for an order of interlocutory injunction restraining INEC from taking any step on the supplementary elections or any elections on May 6, 2011 or any other date into the office of the Governor of Imo State pending the hearing and determination of the substantive suit.

The case comes up on Thursday (today) before Justice Donatus Okorowo.

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