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An Anambra State High Court sitting successful Onitsha has officially granted Nigeria Democratic Congress, NDC, statesmanlike candidate, Peter Obi, support to service tribunal documents connected Kenneth Okonkwo done substituted means aft attempts astatine idiosyncratic work were unsuccessful.
The tribunal ordered that the documents beryllium pasted astatine Okonkwo’s past known code successful Nsukka, Enugu State, oregon handed to immoderate big recovered astatine the residence.
The suit is expected to proceed erstwhile the substituted work is completed.
Recall that the ineligible enactment followed allegations made by Okonkwo that Obi and immoderate NDC leaders successful the South-East demanded further payments from aspirants seeking the party’s tickets for National Assembly positions.
Okonkwo claimed that documentary evidence, including receipts, existed to enactment his allegations.
He besides alleged that Obi personally compiled campaigner lists from a edifice country successful Abuja and made different claims bordering connected dishonesty and transgression conduct.
Following the allegations, Obi’s ineligible squad issued a pre-action missive demanding a retraction, a nationalist apology connected Channels Television and societal media platforms, N5 cardinal successful damages, and an undertaking that Okonkwo would refrain from making akin statements successful the future.
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