Abia pdp : Gov aspirant threatens to file contempt charge against party

Nigerian Tribune

14 February 2011

Abia pdp : Gov aspirant threatens to file contempt charge against party

•No cause for alarm - Orji
A gubernatorial aspirant in Abia State on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has threatened to file a contempt charge against the party for disobeying the order of the court restraining the party and the electoral body from submitting and recognising Governor Theodore Orji of Abia State as a candidate of the party in the April general election.

Despite this order, the governor was at the weekend handed over the flag to contest the election by the party.

Justice Gabriel Kolawole of a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, had on Thursday, stopped the party from presenting Orji for the April election but the party, during the South-East zone campaign for President Goodluck Jonathan, presented the party’s flag to the governor for his re-election bid.