More trouble for Okorocha as INEC excludes him from senators-elect list
About a week after he was suspended by his party, Rochas Okorocha has not been recognised officially as a senator-elect.
INEC noted that only senators-elect as listed on the commission’s website are invited for the ceremony.‘Under duress’ PREMIUM TIMES reported how Mr Ibeabuchi, a professor, refused to complete collation of the three remaining LGAs in Imo West at the INEC office in Orlu.
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