{"id":95335,"date":"2022-05-26T22:21:52","date_gmt":"2022-05-26T21:21:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=95335"},"modified":"2022-05-27T00:22:21","modified_gmt":"2022-05-26T23:22:21","slug":"2023-court-upholds-emenikes-suspension-two-hours-after-wining-abia-apc-governorship-ticket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/2023-court-upholds-emenikes-suspension-two-hours-after-wining-abia-apc-governorship-ticket\/","title":{"rendered":"2023: Court upholds Emenike&#8217;s suspension two hours after wining Abia APC governorship ticket"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">Two hours after Chief Ikechi Emenike emerged the governorship candidate of the All Progressive Congress, APC in Abia state, a State High Court sitting in Umuahia, has\u00a0 affirmed his suspension as a member of the party.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Justice A.O. Chijioke in the Judgment, held that by Emenike&#8217;s suspension by his ward has denied him all membership privileges as provided by the APC Constitution.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Recall that Emenike has emerged governorship candidate of the APC in the state ,defeating Hon. Emeka Atuma, Dr. Uche Ogah, Dr.Alex Otti, among others.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">According to the judgment; &#8220;The purport of this judgment is that Chief Ikechi Emenike is not fit to participate and\/or contest in the ongoing primaries of the APC in Abia State, until the judgment is set aside on appeal.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The Judge restrained Emenike from parading himself as a legitimate member of the APC.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">It also restrained the APC from recognising him as a member of the party while his suspension subsists.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The suit marked HU\/6\/2022: Chinedum Nnoke&amp; 2 Ors. V. Chief Ikechi Emenike &amp; 3 Ors, was filed by three\u00a0 members of the Abia State chapter of APC challenging the membership status of Chief Ikechi Emeinike, despite his suspension by the APC ,Nkwoegwu Ward over anti party activities.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The 3 claimants in the Suit were represented by Anaga Kalu Anaga, while Chief Ikechi Emenike and the APC were represented by Vitalis C.Nwankwo.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Reacting to the development, Abia State APC Chairman, Dr. Kingsley Ononogbu ,denied knowledge of the judgment and added that he has just returned from the APC governorship\u00a0 primaries where Emenike emerged candidate of the party.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two hours after Chief Ikechi Emenike emerged the governorship candidate of the All Progressive Congress, APC in Abia state, a State High Court sitting in Umuahia, has\u00a0 affirmed his suspension&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":95336,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exclusive"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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