Aro told tribunal that he was instructed by his principal to adopt
the written address of Aug. 12 as the petitioner’s address and requested
the tribunal to enlarge time for him to adopt the address as it was
filed out of time.
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The All Progressive Congress (APC) governorship candidate in Enugu State in the last election, Mr Okey Ezea, on Tuesday declared his counsel at the election petitions tribunal as incompetence.
Ezea made the declaration following an argument between him and Mr Ikechukwu Aroh of Chukwuma Oguejiofor Chambers, who claimed to be his new counsel, over two written addresses filed on his behalf.
One
of the addresses was filed by the petitioner’s former counsel on Aug. 8
while the second was filed by Aroh four days later, even when he had
not been admitted by the tribunal.
Aro told
tribunal that he was instructed by his principal to adopt the written
address of Aug. 12 as the petitioner’s address and requested the
tribunal to enlarge time for him to adopt the address as it was filed
out of time.
The petitioner, however, objected on
the ground that the tribunal should adopt the address of Aug. 8, saying
that Aroh was out to ruin his case.
Aroh subsequently applied for withdrawal of appearance for the petitioner which the tribunal granted.
Ezea,
who wanted to carry on with the petition himself, was opposed by the
respondent on the ground that he was not listed as such in the petition.
The
counsel to the respondent, Mr Patrick Ikwueto, had said that Ezea filed
two different written addresses with different dates, adding that the
two addresses were filed out of time and urged the petitioner to adopt
one as his written address.
The tribunal held that the written address filed on Aug. 8 be adopted.
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