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Reasons why Okey Ezeh, the purported Imo Social Democratic Party (SDP) guber candidate and the party\u00a0itself got a fine of N<\/span>500, 000 slammed against each of them by an Owerri Federal\u00a0High Court has been known.<\/p>\n The Federal High Court 2 presided over by Justice I. Ringim awarded the cost against the\u00a0defendants and in favour of the Plaintiff, Dr. Anyanwu for failure to file their statement of\u00a0defence against the suit instituted by Anyanwu.<\/p>\n Eze and the SDP were given extension of time of seven days to file their response while the\u00a0matter was adjourned to the 15th of January, 2019. The Judge also ruled that the status quo of\u00a0the parties should be maintained until determination of the suit.<\/p>\n The N<\/span>1m naira cost is to be paid on or before the 20th of December 2018. It would be recalled\u00a0that Dr Casmir Anyanwu was thrown up in the party\u2019s primary election as the governorship\u00a0candidate but was however substituted by the party.<\/p>\n He took out an action obtaining a restraining order against the Independent National Electoral\u00a0Commission, Okey Ezeh and the Social Democratic Party barring them from substituting his\u00a0name as the duly elected standard bearer. There is yet to be compliance.<\/p>\n In the Primary election of 5th October, Anyanwu had polled a total vote of 855 to beat his\u00a0closest rival who scored 128 votes whereas the third contestant scored Zero votes.<\/p>\n After the Court ruling,\u00a0Counsel to Anyanwu who\u00a0expressed delight at the ruling and in explanation of what maintaining the status quo\u00a0represents he averred that his client still remains the guber candidate of his party in the eyes of\u00a0the law.<\/p>\n He went further to explain that this also affects any purported flag off of any campaign by\u00a0any other person. Information had filtered that the party in the state had planned to kick off its\u00a0campaign in the South East from Owerri any moment. In the light of this judgment, it will\u00a0likely be put on hold.<\/p>\n In a statement issued in the week, the former federal\u00a0Commissioner had admonished the party to first put its house in order by resolving the\u00a0governorship issues which he claimed might embarrass the party.<\/p>\n In his words, no fresh primary has been held since then. No substitution of the guber\u00a0candidate has legally been effected. This fact cannot be wished away by the Party leadership\u00a0no matter how hard it tries and no matter the level of corruption in the system.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Reasons why Okey Ezeh, the purported Imo Social Democratic Party (SDP) guber candidate and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-view-point"],"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":"News Digest<\/a>","tag_info":"News Digest","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22687","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=22687"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22698,"href":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22687\/revisions\/22698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}