Supreme Court order to stop Imo council polls false – Okorocha

Governor Rochas Okorocha Imo state has dismissed rumours making rounds that the Supreme Court has given an order against the State Government stopping the local government elections scheduled by ISIEC.

Okorocha who described the claim as false, also said that there is no such order. The governor who spoke through his Chief Press Secretary, Mr. Sam Onwuemeodo in a press statement on Monday in Owerri saïd, “And we challenge those behind the false claim to publish the said Supreme Court order with regard to the local government elections, for the public to see. And where they fail to publish the claimed Supreme Court order, they should cover their faces in shame. ”

“To say the least, the local government elections will hold as fixed by the state electoral body. The public should disregard the falsehood that is being circulated by those who have no iota of concern for the state and her good people. ”

“It should be stated here that the former chairmen have been in Court since 2011 to contest their sack and they lost at the High Court and also at the Appeal Court. And they are now at the Supreme Court. And the matter for which they appealed to the Apex Court has no bearing with the fixed local government elections. ”

According to him, “Even at the Supreme Court, they have been battling to join some Ex-councillors which they didn’t remember to join at both the Lower Court and at the Appeal Court. All the efforts of their lawyer to join the Ex-councillors were frustrated by the Attorney – General and Commissioner for Justice in the state, Barrister Miletus Nlemedim. ”

He therefore disclosed that the matter was adjourned to December 3, 2018, and has nothing to do with the planned local government elections. In other words, there is no Supreme Court order against the local government elections, and which means, the elections, will go on as scheduled.