–         Case adjourned to Oct, 19
 

Pascal Okolie, representing Orlu State Assembly in the Imo State House of Assembly, who had earlier denied instituting a Suit No: FHC/OW/CS/133/2022 against the Labour Party candidate for Orlu State constituency, Comrade Precious Nwadike, with a view to stopping him from contesting the election has finally owned up and stated why he dragged the latter to court.
 
Pascal Okolie’s plot was unveiled when Nwadike got wind of the Suit through his powerful network of contacts who told him that Pascal Okolie filed the Suit and deliberately refused to serve him the court processes until when the time frame for him to respond would elapse so that his hands would be tied.
 
However, Nwadike’s lawyer who proactively swung into action, has so far responded to all the issues raised by Okolie who is currently seeking re-election on the platform of the PDP.
 
‘’Incidentally Nwadike and his lawyer are now waiting for Okolie and his counsel to join issues which they have not done till date’’.
 
While addressing his supporters at Owerri over the weekend, the lawmaker was asked why he lied initially that he did not drag the Labour Party candidate to court, he said, ‘’ I decided to go to the Federal High Court Owerri to stop Precious Nwadike from contesting election on the platform of Labour Party because.To the best of my knowledge, he is a member of the PDP and contested the primaries with me and others. He is not a member of Labour Party and is not qualified to contest election on its platform”.
 
It was also gathered that Okolie who is seeking re-election despite the written zoning arrengement between the two clans   is also said to have adopted other means of stopping Nwadike which include, sponsoring and bank-rolling the activities of some candidates in unpopular political parties who are pretending to be in the race for Orlu State constituency seat, while in the actual fact, they are being used by Okolie to split Nwadike’s votes in areas perceived to be the latter’s strong hold just to undermined his anticipated victory come 2023.
 
Continuing our source said, ‘’we have it on good authority that he is working hand-in gloves with a powerful politicians from Orsu LGA to ensure that the Labour Party candidate who is the peoples choice by virtue of his exceptional character, antecedents and unblemished track record does not emerge victorious.
 
The reliable source, who was reportedly privy to the discussion they had prior to the primaries and how three persons they approached at Orlu Mgbee axis, refused to be used as tools to truncate Nwadike’s ambition by contesting the primaries.
 
‘’When the 3 persons they earlier approached to play the spoiler’s game declined the offer, they, out of desperation approached another Orlu son who Nwadike transported to Imo State from his base and paid his hotel bills in exchange for his support at the primaries. Surprisingly, when they cornered him for a meeting and promised to bank roll his expenses, he agreed to pretentiously contest the primaries, just to split Nwadike,s votes’’.
 
The source stated that, ‘’Nwadike’s decision to contest for the Orlu State Assembly Seat, come 2023 is making Okolie to lose sleep because he sees Nwadike’s emergence as the candidate of Labour Party as a serious threat to his own ambition in view of what the latter represents in terms of character, antecedents track record and other core values for which he is respected, admired and held in very high esteem by the Orlu electorate and stakeholders’’.
 
 
Another source who is close to a candidate being secretly sponsored by okolie and his group revealed that the Orlu lawmaker did not approach the candidate directly. He got in touch with the candidate through a proxy who claimed that he is the one funding the candidate’s campaign. But it is currently obvious to the candidate that it is Pascal Okolie and his allies that are sponsoring the woman’s purported ambition which is aimed at stopping Nwadike in his track’’. It was also gathered that another way through which Okolie and his group are working against Nwadike is by channeling constituency projects as donations to the communities by those they are sponsoring their purported ambition to contest the house of assembly election for Orlu State constituency on the platforms of unpopular political parties just to split the votes of the labour Party candidate.

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‘’They are using this option to hoodwink the people into believing that the candidates they are sponsoring have the interest of the electorate at heart, when in the actual fact, it is Okolie and the influential politician from  Orsu that are providing the goodies in terms of projects and donations’’.
 
‘’The most disturbing and outrageous of the numerous plans they have hatched with a view to demarket wadike is the hiring of social media persons who they pay #30,000 monthly to blackmail, fabricate and dish out all kinds of falsehood against Nwadike.
 
“However, their efforts will be in vain because what Nwadike a seasoned human rights activist and social crusader represents and the many selfless battles he has fought for the people against his life and personal safety are well known and cannot be rubbished by the antics of political desperadoes who do not care about the welfare of those they claim to represent’’.
 
Meanwhile the matter would be heard at the Federal High Court Uyo, the Akwa Ibon State Capital on October, 19, 2022.   

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