About a week after he was suspended by his party, Rochas Okorocha has not been recognised officially as a senator-elect.
The name of Mr Okorocha, the outgoing governor of Imo State, was excluded from the list of senators-elect published by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Monday.
The commission in a post on its official website said it will issue certificates of return to all “successful candidates in 2019 National Assembly elections” on Thursday at the International Conference Centre in Abuja.
INEC noted that only senators-elect as listed on the commission’s website are invited for the ceremony.
Mr Okorocha contested to represent Imo West Senatorial District in the February 23 election.
‘Under duress’
Though the returning officer, Innocent Ibeabuchi, declared Mr Okorocha winner after a controversial collation of results, he clearly noted he did so “under duress”.
“…I have been held hostage here for days so I’m trying to ease off and take my life home back to my children and for the sake of that I am calling these results under duress,” Mr Ibeabuchi had said before reading out the results.
In INEC’s list of senators-elect, Mr Okorocha’s name was omitted.
“Declaration made under duress”, was boldly written instead.
PREMIUM TIMES reported how Mr Ibeabuchi, a professor, refused to complete collation of the three remaining LGAs in Imo West at the INEC office in Orlu.
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