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We Won’t Allow Impunity To Flourish, INEC Challenges Court Judgement On Okorocha by chinwe1960: 8:01am On Jun 08, 2019
@ StateReporter News
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has expressed concern over the judgement of the federal high court, Abuja, directing it to issue a certificate of return to Rochas Okorocha as senator-elect for Imo west senatorial district.
In a statement on Friday, the commission said it is worried that “if electoral impunity is allowed to flourish, any individual can harass, intimidate and put the Commission’s officers under duress, procure a favourable declaration and be rewarded with a Certificate of Return.”
INEC, however, said it would meet to “do the needful” over the court judgement as well as another one from a high court in Imo state directing it “not to issue a certificate of return to any of the candidates that contested the Imo west senatorial district election.”
The commission had refused to issue the certificate to Okorocha who was declared winner of the poll after the returning officer reported that he declared the former governor winner under duress.
It said while the order from the high court of Imo was issued on May 23, “the judgement delivered by the Federal High Court, Abuja is the latest in time and determined the rights of the parties in relation to the subject matter of the Certificate of Return, in respect of the Imo West Senatorial Election.”
“As a law-abiding institution, the Commission will continue to obey judgements of all courts of competent jurisdiction,” the statement from Festus Okoye, INEC director of voters education and publicity, read
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http://www.statereporters.com/2019/06/08/wont-allow-impunity-flourish-inec-challenges-court-judgement-okorocha/

Re: We Won’t Allow Impunity To Flourish, INEC Challenges Court Judgement On Okorocha by Huchennar(m): 8:02am On Jun 08, 2019
They sha want to kill this man...No love from inside, neither from outside

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