This is owing to two court cases filed by Barr Okey Philip Igwe, the former running mate to late Prof Uche Ikonne, PDP’s former guber candidate and Chief Emma Nwaka, former State Chairman of PDP in the State and one of the aspirants in the last governorship primary election that produced Chief Okechukwu Ahaiwe as guber candidate.

The dropping of Hon Okey Philip Igwe as the running mate of the new guber candidate, Okey Ahaiwe, and his replacement with Hon Jasper Uche is the matter in dispute.

Okey Igwe was the running mate to Prof Uche Ikonne until the ex-ABSU VC’s unfortunate death last month.

But after the conduct of the February 4 fresh primary at Umuahia township stadium where Ahaiwe trashed other aspirants by getting 469 votes, the PDP announced that Hon Jasper Uche had been picked as Ahaiwe’s running mate.

The announcement threw Ikonne’s number 2, Igwe, off balance as he rejected the new arrangement, insisting that his candidature as running mate subsists according to him, “in accordance with the constitution and the Electoral Act.”