Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo State, has sued the Independent National Electoral Commission before the Federal High Court in Abuja seeking to be issued with a certificate of return as the senator-elect for the Imo West Senatorial District.
INEC refused to issue him the certificate of return after Prof. Francis Ibeawuchu, the Returning Officer for the February 23 election, claimed he declared the outgoing governor winner of the senatorial election under duress.
A lawsuit was then filed on behalf of Okorocha by his lawyer, Mr. Kehinde Ogunwumiju (SAN).
But by agreement of lawyers in the case, the judge, Justice Taiwo Taiwo, made an order permitting the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in the election, Jones Onyeriri and that of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, Senator Osita Izunaso, to be joined as the 2nd and the 3rd defendants.
Izunaso was ably represented by his lawyer, Nwafor Orizu; Onyeyiri was represented by Emeka Etiaba (SAN), and INEC by Mrs. Wendy Kuku.
