{"id":14592,"date":"2015-07-06T12:12:53","date_gmt":"2015-07-06T12:12:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/?p=14592"},"modified":"2015-07-06T12:12:53","modified_gmt":"2015-07-06T12:12:53","slug":"election-petition-tribunal-disappoints-ex-deputy-speaker-ozoemena-against-opiah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/?p=14592","title":{"rendered":"Election Petition  Tribunal  Disappoints  Ex-Deputy  Speaker,  Ozoemena Against Opiah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/?attachment_id=14602\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-14602\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/opiah-2.jpg\" alt=\"opiah 2\" width=\"434\" height=\"720\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14602\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/opiah-2.jpg 434w, http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/opiah-2-181x300.jpg 181w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 434px) 100vw, 434px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Imo State Election Petition Tribunal sitting  in Owerri on the 1st of July, 2015, in a case EPT\/IM\/HR\/06\/2015 overruled itself nullifying its earlier ruling permitting amendments in a petition against the member representing the Ohaji\/Egbema\/Oguta\/Oru West Federal Constituency, the Rt Hon Goodluck Nanah Opiah.<br \/>\nThe immediate past member in the Imo State House of Assembly for Oru West State constituency who contested for  the Federal Constituency but lost  had challenged the victory  of  Rt Hon Opiah without due diligence, adequate research in  records, evidence and facts.<br \/>\nHowever, upon realizing the mistake, petitioner Ozoemena had through his counsel sought amendment of the original petition without recourse  to  the requirements of the Electoral Act.<br \/>\nAfter exchange  of legal fireworks between the legal team of Chief Ozoemena  led  by BC Iheka Esq and  that of Rt Hon Opiah led  by  the duo of  De-Nwigwe (SAN)  and KCO Njemanze (SAN),  the tribunal saw reason to nullify  its earlier ruling  permitting amendments  in the petition against Rt Hon Goodluck Opiah. The action threw wild jubilation in the camp of Opiah who thronged the court premises while Ozoemena people left disappointed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Imo State Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Owerri on the 1st of July, 2015,<\/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-14592","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\/14592","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=14592"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14604,"href":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14592\/revisions\/14604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}