{"id":77413,"date":"2022-12-03T21:25:16","date_gmt":"2022-12-03T20:25:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/2023-enugu-pdp-chieftain-okwu-nnabuike-disowns-labour-partys-vin-martins-ilo"},"modified":"2022-12-03T21:25:16","modified_gmt":"2022-12-03T20:25:16","slug":"2023-enugu-pdp-chieftain-okwu-nnabuike-disowns-labour-partys-vin-martins-ilo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/2023-enugu-pdp-chieftain-okwu-nnabuike-disowns-labour-partys-vin-martins-ilo","title":{"rendered":"2023: Enugu PDP chieftain, Okwu Nnabuike disowns Labour Party\u2019s Vin Martins Ilo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>A member of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Enugu State, Okwu Nnabuike Emmanuel has described as embarrassing and unacceptable the listing of his name as a signatory to the form submitted to the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, by a factional Labour Party House of Representatives candidate for Awgu-Oji River-Aninri Federal Constituency, Mr. Vin Martins Ilo.<\/p>\n<p>The INEC form EC13D filed by Ilo before a Federal High Court, Enugu, showed Okwu, among others as signatories to the form he submitted to the INEC. Initials were used as their signatures.<\/p>\n<p>However, Okwu who expressed outrage over the development, described it as forgery of the highest order.<\/p>\n<p>He said it came to him with rude shock as he was not consulted by Ilo or any member of the Labour Party.<\/p>\n<p>He said, \u201cI find it strange that my name could find its place in such a document. I\u2019m not and have never been a member of the Labour Party. This is why I find it strange, criminal and unacceptable that Vin Martins Ilo could use my name for such a thing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEver since that document found its way into the public space, I have been inundated with calls from family members and friends. It has been an embarrassing moment for me. I\u2019m not even aware that Ilo is a member of the Labour Party, let alone signing any form for him. I\u2019m aware he is in court over the APC ticket for the same constituency; I now wonder how the same person is also in court over the Labour Party ticket.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Okwu declared that he would not lie low over the matter, vowing to make sure that Ilo is punished by the law over the alleged forgery.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe law is clear on perjury and it will apply on this matter; I will also pursue the civil aspect of it because my integrity has been impugned,\u201d he lamented.<\/p>\n<p>He called on the members of the public to ignore what he called \u201ca deliberate act of mischief by Ilo and his collaborators.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>An enquiry sent to Ilo has not been responded to as of the time of filing this report.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\">Nigeria<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. A member of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Enugu State, Okwu Nnabuike Emmanuel has described as embarrassing and unacceptable the listing of his name as a signatory to the form submitted to the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, by a factional Labour Party House of Representatives candidate for Awgu-Oji River-Aninri Federal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":77412,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,16],"tags":[1570,2140,662,3634,254,7903,65,9276],"class_list":["post-77413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-parties","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-nigeria-2","tag-enugu","tag-labour-party","tag-nigeria","tag-okwu-nnabuike","tag-pdp","tag-vin-martins-ilo"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>2023: Enugu PDP chieftain, Okwu Nnabuike disowns Labour Party\u2019s Vin Martins Ilo - Nigeria<\/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.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/2023-enugu-pdp-chieftain-okwu-nnabuike-disowns-labour-partys-vin-martins-ilo\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"2023: Enugu PDP chieftain, Okwu Nnabuike disowns Labour Party\u2019s Vin Martins Ilo\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. 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