{"id":13064,"date":"2014-10-22T18:06:24","date_gmt":"2014-10-22T18:06:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/?p=13064"},"modified":"2014-10-22T18:06:24","modified_gmt":"2014-10-22T18:06:24","slug":"prisoners-crown-imo-apc-chairman-presido-in-abuja-prison-as-govt-agents-beg-ilomuanya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/?p=13064","title":{"rendered":"Prisoners Crown  Imo APC Chairman  \u201cPresido\u201d in Abuja Prison As Govt Agents Beg Ilomuanya"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/police-flag.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/police-flag.jpeg\" alt=\"police flag\" width=\"268\" height=\"188\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13065\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe last has not been heard concerning the incarceration of the chairman of the Imo state chapter of the All Progressive Congress, APC, Hilary Ekeh who has spent ten days in prison custody.<br \/>\nEke, it was learnt has turned to \u201cPresido\u201d of his cell where he was kept with other inmates at Kuje Prisons Abuja on waiting trial condition.<br \/>\nThe embattled APC chairman found himself in the gulag when the bail conditions extended to him on a two-count charge of forgery and defamation of character could not be met after he was arraigned at the a magistrate court in Abuja.<br \/>\nSensing that Ekeh may continue to languish in detention because of inability to meet the stringent bail conditions Trumpeta gathered that the Imo state governor, Owelle Rochas Okorocha has reportedly sent emissaries to Eze Ilomuanya for reapproachment and a possible way of having out of court settlement to have the party chairman out of the hook.<br \/>\nBased on the inability of police investigators to get a true copy and certify that there was such a law court based in Calabar who gave the judgement against Ilomuanya, Eke who advertised the criminal conviction of Ilomuanya was dragged to court for forgery. And if found guilty of the offence may be jailed for 14 years and two years defamation.<br \/>\nApparently aware of the sensitive nature of the case and the interest Ilomuanya has shown for the prosecution of the matter, agents of the state governor are said to have approached chairman of Imo state council of Traditional Rulers for amicable resolution.<br \/>\nTrumpeta Abuja correspondent learnt that one female accomplice and an appointee of the governor was in Ilomuanya&#8217;s Abuja residence to broker a truce where she was said to have requested the monarch to visit Imo Governor&#8217;s Lodge, in Abuja for a meeting with Okorocha.<br \/>\nIlomuanya was said to have informed the agent that his having a discussion with Okorocha should not be in the governor&#8217;s terms and govt lodge revealing that previous discussions he had in Govt House with the number one citizen of Imo was worthless and meaningless. Ilomuanya was said to have decried former meetings he had with Okorocha since he became governor which yielded fruits.<br \/>\nIlomuanya was said to have demanded that any meeting or discussion will be at his own instance and not that of the governor.<br \/>\nThe woman left Ilomuanya&#8217;s house in Abuja and is said to have not returned to convey the response of the governor since last Thursday she visited.<br \/>\nTrumpeta learnt on good authority that Ekeh is enjoying privileged status in prison custody kuje, Abuja, as inmates have crowned him \u201cPresido\u201d<br \/>\nOur correspondent who attempted to visit Eke was aksed if he was looking for the new \u201cPresido\u201d of the cell.<br \/>\nAs at the time of this report Trumpeta correspondent in Abuja noted that efforts are on to get Ekeh abail <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The last has not been heard concerning the incarceration of the chairman of the Imo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-frontpage"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","elegant-magazine-featured":"","elegant-magazine-medium":"","elegant-magazine-medium-small":"","elegant-magazine-thumbnail-small":""},"author_info":{"info":["Imo Trumpeta"]},"category_info":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/?cat=3\" rel=\"category\">Frontpage<\/a>","tag_info":"Frontpage","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13064"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13066,"href":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13064\/revisions\/13066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}