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Nigeria: Tension in Ebonyi Over Postponed Appeal Court Verdict
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Vanguard (Lagos)
8 July 2008
Posted to the web 9 July 2008
Dennis Agbo
Tension has built up in Ebonyi State over the postponement of judgment in the 2007 governorship election legal tussle between Dr. Ogbonnaya Onu of the All Nigeria Peoples Party, ANPP, and Governor Martin Elechi of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, at the Court of Appeal in Enugu.
While Onu's legal team, led by Prof. Ben Nwabueze, said they received a letter of postponment from the appallent court, Onu's supporters suspect there is probably a hidden agenda over the postponment.
In Governor Elechi's camp, at least, one of the cabinet members, Hycenth Ote, was furious when he spoke with newsmen about the lingered electoral contest. Ote said he was supprised that people who did not work towards the creation of Ebonyi State are dragging the government around and preventing it from concentration for good governance.
Mr. Ote reacted angrily and fumed, "in the first place, is there supposed to be election in Ebonyi, are we not supposed to just appoint somebody and he goes?"
But the ANPP members in the state said they were supprised to hear that the judgment was shifted from Tuesday to Friday.
They cried foul, saying they have lost patience in the continued stay in power of PDP government in the state which it accused of hijacking the people's mandate on April 14, 2007.
While the ANPP chairman in the state, Livinus Nwambe, recently said that the ANPP members who purportedly decamped to the PDP in the state were the main trans-ducers of the opposition party, he added that "it will soon become obvious to everybody that we are on the threshold of taking over the governance of the state from the grip of the PDP and their co-travelers."
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Nwambe's reaction came after Dr. Onu instructed his counsel and constitutional lawyer, Professor Ben Nwabueze, to commence court action against the Ebonyi State owned radio Broadcasting Service, EBBS, for misinforming the public by announcing that the Court of Appeal in Enugu has struck out his case against the ruling PDP government in the state.
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