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<\/a><\/p>\nImo State Governor, Owelle Rochas Okorocha on Thursday lost the chance to get a confirmation as Senator-elect of Imo West Senatorial District.<\/p>\n
At the International Conference Centre, Abuja, venue of the issuance of the Certificate of Return by INEC, Okorocha\u2019s presence was not felt even as another Senator-Elect of Imo State, Ezenwa Onyewuchi was handed that of Owerri zone.<\/p>\n
INEC had in an earlier release made public last week excluded Okorocha\u2019s name from the exercise. The governor\u2019s exclusion may not be unconnected to the allegation raised by the Returning Officer for Orlu zone who alleged that he was harassed and forced to announce the result under duress, prompting INEC to shut Okorocha out.<\/p>\n
Trumpeta<\/em> observed that only the Owerri zone candidate of PDP, Onyewuchi was honoured with a Certificate while uncertainty trails that of Okigwe zone where INEC is yet to make official statement of the winner Okorocha on Wednesday lamented his exclusion while addressing supporters in Owerri.\u00a0 He claimed not to be a violent person while stating that INEC has no powers to stop his Certificate of Return as Orlu zone Senator-Elect.<\/p>\n In a similar development, eight newly elected House of Reps out of the ten received their Certificates of Return in Abuja. They are Bede Eke (PDP) for Aboh Mbaise\/Ngor Okpala, Emeka Martins (PDP) Ahiazu\/Ezinihitte, Paschal Obi (AA), Ideato, and Nwawuba Henry Udochukwu (PDP) Mbaitoli\/Ikeduru.<\/p>\n Others are Ugonna Ozuruigbo (APC) Nwangele\/Isu\/Njaba\/Nkwerre, Kingsley Uju (AA) Ohaji\/Egbema, Oguta, Oru West, Jerry Alagbaoso (PDP) Orlu, Orsu, Oru East and Ikenna Elezianya (PDP) Owerri Federal.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Imo State Governor, Owelle Rochas Okorocha on Thursday lost the chance to get a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23919","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":"Frontpage<\/a>","tag_info":"Frontpage","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23919","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=23919"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23929,"href":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23919\/revisions\/23929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}