Okorocha to attend APC presidential screening as court grants him bail
POLITICS DIGEST – The Federal High Court, Abuja on Tuesday granted the bail application of former Imo State governor, Sen Rochas Okorocha.
The former governor having secured his bail from the hands of the Economic and Financial Crimea Commission headed to the All Progressives Congress Secretariat for screening as a presidential aspirant, as he was listed to face the committee today.
A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has granted embattled former Imo State Governor Rochas Okorocha bail in the sum of N500 million or surety in the like sum.
While granting the administrative bail on Tuesday, Justice Inyang Ekwo who ruled on the bail application filed by the Imo West Senator, held that as part of the bail condition which he must fulfil, Okorocha should provide a surety with a landed property in the Federal Capital Territory.
The judge also ordered that the Senator must submit his international passport to the court registry and seek the court’s permission before travelling outside the jurisdiction of the court.
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He also ordered that Okorocha still be remanded with EFCC pending the perfection of their bail terms.
If the former governor succeeds in perfecting his his bail in the hands of the Economic and Financial Crimea Commission (EFCC) may head to the All Progressives Congress Secretariat for screening as a presidential aspirant, as he was listed to face the committee today.
The former governor was arraigned on Monday before Justice Ekwo on a 17-count charge bordering on conspiracy to steal N2.9 billion in public funds during his tenure as Imo State Governor.
He was accused by the EFCC of conspiring with others, including a chieftain of the ruling APC, Anyim Chinenye and five companies; Naphtali International Limited, Perfect Finish Multi Projects Limited, Consolid Projects Consulting Limited, Pramif International Limited, and Legend World Concepts Limited, of conspiring to steal from the Imo State coffers.
The bail could provide Okorocha, a presidential aspirant of the APC, the leeway to attend the party’s presidential screening after he was listed among nine other contestants to face the Chief John Odigie-Oyegun screening panel on Tuesday.
