{"id":25610,"date":"2019-08-06T02:50:36","date_gmt":"2019-08-06T02:50:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/?p=25610"},"modified":"2019-08-06T02:50:36","modified_gmt":"2019-08-06T02:50:36","slug":"izunaso-vs-okorocha-imo-inec-commissioner-risk-jail-for-ignoring-tribunal-summons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/?p=25610","title":{"rendered":"Izunaso Vs Okorocha  Imo INEC Commissioner Risk Jail for Ignoring Tribunal Summons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"yiv4236030374ydpbde92a37MsoNoSpacing\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/?attachment_id=25611\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-25611\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-25611\" src=\"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Justice-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"238\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Justice-1.jpg 400w, http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Justice-1-300x179.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv4236030374ydpbde92a37MsoNoSpacing\"><b>By Okey Alozie<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv4236030374ydpbde92a37MsoNoSpacing\">The Senate Tribunal sitting in Owerri has given an order compelling the Imo Resident Electoral Commission, Francis Ezeonu to appear before it on matter between Senator Osita Izunaso and Owelle Rochas Okorocha, former governor of Imo State.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv4236030374ydpbde92a37MsoNoSpacing\">The tribunal insisted that the Imo INEC boss must appear before it on or before 5pm on Monday 5<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0of August 2019 but after the court session resume after a break, the INEC lawyer was nowhere to be found, even the REC failed to show up as directed by the tribunal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv4236030374ydpbde92a37MsoNoSpacing\">\u00a0Following the REC\u2019s to appear in court, the tribunal resumed sitting but later adjourned the case to 14<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0of August. All Izunaso\u2019s witnesses and exhibits were also closed as the first respondent is now to open up on the 31<sup>st<\/sup>\u00a0of August 2019.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv4236030374ydpbde92a37MsoNoSpacing\"><i>Trumpeta<\/i>\u00a0gathered that door for further witnesses for the petitioner has been shut down as no other exhibit will be accepted again.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv4236030374ydpbde92a37MsoNoSpacing\">\u00a0This paper however gathered that the REC was said to have travelled outside Owerri.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv4236030374ydpbde92a37MsoNoSpacing\">Legal experts who spoke to our reporter submitted that the REC may go to jail if he continues to disobey the court order by refusing to appear in the next sitting of the tribunal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv4236030374ydpbde92a37MsoNoSpacing\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Okey Alozie The Senate Tribunal sitting in Owerri has given an order compelling the<\/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-25610","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\/25610","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=25610"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25612,"href":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25610\/revisions\/25612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}