{"id":413480,"date":"2011-05-01T23:07:40","date_gmt":"2011-05-01T23:07:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/05\/01\/don-faults-planned-supplementary-guber-election-in-imo\/"},"modified":"2011-05-01T23:07:40","modified_gmt":"2011-05-01T23:07:40","slug":"don-faults-planned-supplementary-guber-election-in-imo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/05\/01\/don-faults-planned-supplementary-guber-election-in-imo\/","title":{"rendered":"Don faults planned supplementary guber election in Imo"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"68\">\n<p><strong>BY IKECHUKWU NNOCHIRI<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>ABUJA-A Professor of Law, Chidi Odinkalu, yesterday, expressed worries over the scheduled May 6 supplementary gubernatorial election in Imo State, saying it would render section 178(2) of the 1999 Constitution nugatory.<\/p>\n<p>The legal pundit maintained that except the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, secured an amendment to the aforementioned section, planned supplementary governorship election in Imo State might amount to a nullity in the eyes of the law and thus null and void ab-initio.<\/p>\n<p>Specifically, section 178(2) of the 1999 constitution as amended provides that, \u201c(a) n election to the office of Governor of a State shall be held on a date not earlier than sixty days and not later than thirty days before the expiration of the term of office of the last holder of that office.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Consequently, Prof Odinkalu, through a statement yesterday, contended that since Governor Ikedi Ohakim would vacate office by May 29, any gubernatorial election held in Imo State less than the stipulated 30 days, will be illegal and unconstitutional.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, \u201cin ordering supplementary elections to take place on May 6 in four out of 27 local government areas in Imo State, following what it described as \u201cinconclusive elections\u201d for the office of governor in Imo State on April 26, Prof Attahiru Jega\u2019s INEC will be manifestly acting contrary to law and without lawful authority or justification.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Comments are moderated. Please keep them clean and brief.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>View post:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.vanguardngr.com\/2011\/05\/don-faults-planned-supplementary-guber-election-in-imo\/\" title=\"Don faults planned supplementary guber election in Imo\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Don faults planned supplementary guber election in Imo<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> BY IKECHUKWU NNOCHIRI ABUJA-A Professor of Law, Chidi Odinkalu, yesterday, expressed worries over the scheduled May 6 supplementary gubernatorial election in Imo State, saying it would render section 178(2) of the 1999 Constitution nugatory. The legal pundit maintained that except the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, secured an amendment to the aforementioned section, planned supplementary governorship election in Imo State might amount to a nullity in the eyes of the law and thus null and void ab-initio<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":413481,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-413480","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-local-news"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Don faults planned supplementary guber election in Imo - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/05\/01\/don-faults-planned-supplementary-guber-election-in-imo\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Don faults planned supplementary guber election in Imo - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"BY IKECHUKWU NNOCHIRI ABUJA-A Professor of Law, Chidi Odinkalu, yesterday, expressed worries over the scheduled May 6 supplementary gubernatorial election in Imo State, saying it would render section 178(2) of the 1999 Constitution nugatory. 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