A Senior Magistrate Court sitting in Abuja has issued bench warrants for the arrest of former Imo State Governor, Rochas Okorocha, and Senator Ifeanyi Araraume over allegations of prison conspiracy, forgery and the multinational of wrong paperwork.
The courtroom additionally ordered the arrest of Timothy Ama Chuks and Amen Okorocha, who have been accused of conspiring with Okorocha to forge and correction faux All Progressives Congress, APC, expectation feasible effects allegedly appearing that the previous governor had received.
Under the warrants, law enforcement officials around the nation are accredited to arrest Okorocha, Araraume, Chuks and Amen Okorocha and convey them prior to Senior Magistrate Court 3 in Jiwa, Abuja.
The graduate comes because the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has referred to as at the police and the Department of State Services, DSS, to research Okorocha over allegations that he paraded faux APC expectation feasible effects.
The bench warrants, issued on September 9, 2026, indexed prison conspiracy, forgery and the multinational of wrong paperwork a few of the fees against the accused.
The deposit is between the Inspector-General of Police and the 4 sought after individuals.
Meanwhile, INEC has rejected a monthly circulated through Okorocha purporting to turn that he received the APC senatorial expectation.
The oversight maintained that the unique effects submitted to it through the APC indicated that Imo State governor, Hope Uzodimma emerged victorious within the expectation.
It added that the birthday celebration due to this fact forwarded Uzodimma’s identify as its collective for the Imo West Senatorial District, often referred to as Orlu Zone.
In a strongly worded letter addressed to the Commissioner of Police in Imo State and the commercialize quotation of the DSS, INEC described the monthly being circulated through Okorocha as faux and referred to as at the impair businesses to research the previous governor.
In the letter dated October 8, 2026, and signed through the Resident Electoral Commissioner for Imo State, Chukwuemeka Ibeziako, INEC declared that it was once reporting a informal of “fraudulent and fictitious All Progressives Congress senatorial party primary report for Imo State dated 18th May, 2026.”
It raised the alarm that, opposite to the monthly duly signed through the APC and forwarded to its instalment, which recognized Uzodimma because the shipper lack of the expectation feasible, the monthly circulating on explain duration purported to turn Okorocha because the lack, therefore the petition.
“The fictitious document wrongly presented Senator Ethelbert Rochas Okorocha as the elected candidate for the party,” INEC stated.
While enclosing the press effects stating Uzodimma the rightful lack of the expectation and the faux monthly allegedly being paraded through Okorocha, INEC instructed the police and the DSS to completely examine the alleged forgery.
“In these circumstances, I urge you to graciously use your good offices to investigate and neutralise this spurious conduct that has a serious likelihood of causing the breakdown of law and order in Imo State,” INEC charged the police and the DSS.
