{"id":15033,"date":"2015-09-03T17:50:03","date_gmt":"2015-09-03T17:50:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/?p=15033"},"modified":"2015-09-03T17:50:03","modified_gmt":"2015-09-03T17:50:03","slug":"okigwe-senate-seat-hope-rises-for-ex-imo-speaker-as-achonu-suffers-appeal-court-blowappeal-court-orders-substituted-service-on-uzodinma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/?p=15033","title":{"rendered":"Okigwe Senate Seat: Hope Rises For  Ex-Imo Speaker As Achonu Suffers Appeal Court BlowAppeal Court Orders Substituted Service On Uzodinma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/?attachment_id=15036\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-15036\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/courtt.jpg\" alt=\"courtt\" width=\"600\" height=\"357\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15036\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/courtt.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/courtt-300x179.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>By Victor Mmadumere<br \/>\nThe camp of the immediate past Speaker of the  Imo State House of  Assembly, Rt Hon Benjamin  Uwajumogu and the entire All Progressive Congress, APC, family  in Okigwe Senatorial District, are  in high hopes  at  the moment following  the setting aside  of  the recent tribunal ruling on Accord Party election petition by the appeal court sitting  in Owerri, Imo State.<br \/>\nAlthough, the petition and the appeal were not filed by the former Speaker but analysis seems to position him as likely benefactor of petition and appeal, as noticed at the court premises should the otherwise happen in the lower tribunal having have his case set aside.<br \/>\nDelivering the ruling, the appeal panel faulted  the  lower tribunal&#8217;s decision of dismissing  the petition on the ground  of  abuse of court process stating  that from all the submission and arguments evidences available to the tribunal, the decision to dismiss the petition was  in error,  therefore  null and  void.<br \/>\nThe panel maintained that there was no evidence  of  abuse of court process by  the  petitioner submitting the witness of the National Chairman of the Accord Party to affirm Elder ThankGod Ibe as  the substantive chairman of Accord Party watered\/dismissed the alleged abuse  of  court process  that would have arisen from the petition filed by one Mr Agu  Bryan who claimed to be the Accord Party state chairman and  who  the tribunal  described as an impostor.<br \/>\nThe panel ruled that the platform in which the petitioner, Hon Rite Ibemere contested the election is Accord with a symbol and not Accord Party with AP symbol. Therefore there was no abuse of court process of filing double petition on the same subject matter.   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Victor Mmadumere The camp of the immediate past Speaker of the Imo State House<\/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-15033","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\/15033","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=15033"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15038,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15033\/revisions\/15038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}