{"id":14644,"date":"2015-07-09T17:55:13","date_gmt":"2015-07-09T17:55:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/?p=14644"},"modified":"2015-07-09T17:55:13","modified_gmt":"2015-07-09T17:55:13","slug":"imo-guber-tribunal-okorochas-counsel-adopts-delaytactics-challenges-pre-trial-notice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/?p=14644","title":{"rendered":"Imo Guber Tribunal Okorocha\u2019s Counsel Adopts DelayTactics, Challenges Pre-Trial Notice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/?attachment_id=14646\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-14646\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/okorocha-vs-ihedioha.jpg\" alt=\"okorocha vs ihedioha\" width=\"989\" height=\"553\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14646\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/okorocha-vs-ihedioha.jpg 989w, https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/okorocha-vs-ihedioha-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 989px) 100vw, 989px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nBy Victor Madumere<br \/>\nIn continuation of  the  Imo State  Guber election Petition Tribunal, filed by  Rt Hon Emeka Ihedioha  of  the  Peoples  Democratic Party, PDP, against  the All Progressive Congress (APC)candidate, Gov Rochas Okorocha  and  36  others, the team of counsel representing the 1st respondents Gov Rochas Okorocha and his party the All Progressive Congress, (APC) 37th respondent is depending on their plan B, a motion challenging the competence of the Pre-trial notice of the petitioner to triumph in the election tribunal.<br \/>\nAfter losing two application rulings to the petitioner, Rt Hon Emeka Ihedioha, which failed to stop the tribunal from taking pre-hearing proceedings, this step came after the court had ruled that the 2nd respondent, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), had exhausted official time  to file pleading  in could not have  any  extension of  time to filed her  pleading according to  law, having been served long  ago  but refused to file  her  pleading, as argued by  the counsel  to  the petitioner, Chief Mike Ahamba, SAN.<br \/>\nAt the resumption of proceedings yesterday Wednesday, 8th, July 2015 the respondent represented by Barr Okey Amechi drew the attention of the panel to  the motion challenging  the  competence of  the 1st  and  37th respondents on extension of time to file reply by  the petitioner.<br \/>\nBarr Amechi, in his application sort  for  the withdrawal  of  the said motion and  argued the panel to strike it out, for  there should be  an amendment  on  the  motion, (that is the 37th respondent should not  be a party in  motion)<br \/>\nChief Ahamba did not object to the application rather he described it as a subtle concession to the petitioners arguments.<br \/>\nHe went further to submit that, the motion should be dismissed instead.<br \/>\nThe honourable Justice David Wyon led Tribunal Panel in their wisdom struck out  the motion,  and adjourned the hearing of both; the motion scheduled for  hearing today 9th July, challenging the competence  of  the  pre-trial notice file by  the respondents and  other pending  motion  to  Friday, 10th July 2015.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Victor Madumere In continuation of the Imo State Guber election Petition Tribunal, filed by<\/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-14644","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=\"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/?cat=3\" rel=\"category\">Frontpage<\/a>","tag_info":"Frontpage","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14644"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14648,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14644\/revisions\/14648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}