A Senior Justice of the Peace Court docket sitting in Abuja has issued bench warrants for the arrest of former Imo State Governor, Rochas Okorocha, and Senator Ifeanyi Araraume over allegations of legal conspiracy, forgery and the presentation of false paperwork.
The court docket additionally ordered the arrest of Timothy Ama Chuks and Amen Okorocha, who had been accused of conspiring with Okorocha to forge and post pretend All Progressives Congress, APC, number one election effects allegedly appearing that the previous governor had received.
Underneath the warrants, cops around the nation are approved to arrest Okorocha, Araraume, Chuks and Amen Okorocha and produce them earlier than Senior Justice of the Peace Court docket 3 in Jiwa, Abuja.
The improvement comes because the Unbiased Nationwide Electoral Fee, INEC, has known as at the police and the Division of State Services and products, DSS, to research Okorocha over allegations that he paraded pretend APC number one election effects.
The bench warrants, issued on September 9, 2026, indexed legal conspiracy, forgery and the presentation of false paperwork some of the fees in opposition to the accused.
The subject is between the Inspector-Basic of Police and the 4 sought after individuals.
In the meantime, INEC has rejected a report circulated by way of Okorocha purporting to turn that he received the APC senatorial number one.
The fee maintained that the unique effects submitted to it by way of the APC indicated that Imo State governor, Hope Uzodimma emerged victorious in the main.
It added that the birthday celebration therefore forwarded Uzodimma’s identify as its candidate for the Imo West Senatorial District, often referred to as Orlu Zone.
In a strongly worded letter addressed to the Commissioner of Police in Imo State and the state director of the DSS, INEC described the report being circulated by way of Okorocha as pretend and known as at the safety businesses to research the previous governor.
Within the letter dated October 8, 2026, and signed by way of the Resident Electoral Commissioner for Imo State, Chukwuemeka Ibeziako, INEC declared that it used to be reporting a case of “fraudulent and fictitious All Progressives Congress senatorial birthday celebration number one file for Imo State dated 18th Might, 2026.”
It raised the alarm that, opposite to the report duly signed by way of the APC and forwarded to its headquarters, which recognized Uzodimma because the transparent winner of the main election, the report circulating on social media purported to turn Okorocha because the winner, therefore the petition.
“The fictional report wrongly offered Senator Ethelbert Rochas Okorocha because the elected candidate for the birthday celebration,” INEC stated.
Whilst enclosing the unique effects pointing out Uzodimma the rightful winner of the main and the pretend report allegedly being paraded by way of Okorocha, INEC instructed the police and the DSS to entirely examine the alleged forgery.
“In those cases, I beg you to graciously use your just right workplaces to research and neutralise this spurious habits that has a significant probability of inflicting the breakdown of regulation and order in Imo State,” INEC charged the police and the DSS.