Imo 2019: Okolienta heads to Supreme Court
...Insists he won the AA Guber ticket The last has not been heard about the legal tussle involving Mr. Leonard Okolienta and Chief Uche Nwosu over the Guber ticket of the Action Alliance (AA), in the just concluded 2019 General elections in Imo State. It will be recalled that Mr. Okolienta had approached the court seeking the recovery of the AA Guber ticket, which he claims to have duly won, during the party's primary. According to him, Chief Uche Nwosu was of the All Progressives Congress (APC) as the time the Action Alliance conducted her primaries and cannot claim to be the authentic candidate of the party. Following an unfavorable judgment at the lower court, Mr. Okolienta had approached the appellate court in search of justice. When the matter came up for hearing on Thursday 6th June, 2019, The presiding judge Hon. Justice R.C. Agbo had stated that the court lacks the jurisdiction to hear the matter since the 60 days provided for the hearing of the case, wh...