Tuesday, 22 May 2012
Petition In Respect Of The Candidacy Of Chief Hope Uzodinma For The Imo West Senatorial District
By Festus Keyamo
Dear Sir: We have been briefed by the Orlu Progressive Indigenes led by Mr. Longers Umeh of Ihioma town in Orlu in respect of questions they have raised over the candidacy of one Chief Hope Uzodinma who is a Senatorial aspirant for the Imo West Senatorial District.
We have decided to write this petition to you out of our deep concern regarding the credentials and integrity of those you intend to field to contest for various elective offices in the country. As the largest party in Africa, we are sure your Party can boast of quality men and women in various fields of human endeavour that you can sponsor to run for various offices, hence you will have no qualms at all in dropping anyone who you come to realize will constitute an embarrassing albatross to the Party in terms of credibility, competence and qualification.
One of such persons we enjoin you to take a closer look at is Chief Hope Uzodinma who is an aspirant for the Imo West Senatorial District. The following cases/issues in respect of Chief Hope Uzodinma which we hereby highlight hereunder raise serious questions about his credibility to vie for the said office and whether the Peoples’ Democratic Party may not eventually end up loosing the right to field any candidate for that Senatorial District if you decide to field the said Chief Hope Uzodinma.
CASE NUMBER ONE: FUGITIVE FROM THE LAW
Sometime in 2005, Springbank Plc, lodged a complaint with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission against Chief Hope Uzodinma for fraudulent diversion and obtaining money under false pretences. After a thorough investigation, the Commission found a prima facie case against him and filed a nine-count charge against him at the High Court of Lagos State, Ikeja Division in Charge No. ID/82C/2008: F.R.N V. HOPE UZODINMA. (Kindly find attached a copy of the charge sheet and correspondence from the complainant bank).
Since the charge was filed against him, he has fled from the long arms of the law and has been running from pillar to post trying to frustrate his arraignment. The matter has come up severally in court, and on each occasion the court was informed by the E.F.C.C that Chief Hope Uzodinma is at large, meaning he is a fugitive from the law. Pray, what manner of person (especially one who aspires to be a lawmaker) will run away from justice? Imagine the embarrassment to your party if law enforcement agents lie in wait for your candidate and arrest him on election day or during inauguration in the full glare of the public. Or just imagine if he wins the general election as your candidate and he is eventually convicted and loses his seat. Can your party afford such moral crises?
Kindly recall that your predecessor in office, Chief Vincent Ogbulafor, who was even an elected National Chairman of your Party, was made to resign his position based on a mere criminal charge that was filed against him. That is the moral standard that your Party has set for itself. And here we are talking of an individual who has not even been screened and passed fit to be an aspirant of the party.
The other reason we have brought this matter to your attention is to formally inform you that one of your own is a wanted man and if you do not advise him to report himself to the EFCC for his arraignment and trial when he presents himself for screening, then you will be aiding and abetting a crime. Please, take the hint and do what is needful.
CASE NO.2: UZODINMA ON THE VERGE OF BANKRUPTCY
Chief Hope Uzodinma is the majority shareholder and the Managing Director of Transurb Technical Consult Ltd. The company is presently indebted to Bank PHB in the sum of N690,000,000.00 (Six Hundred and Ninety Million Naira), not to mention her debts with other banks.
As a result, there is presently a subsisting suit pending against the company at the High Court of Justice, Lagos State, Lagos Division before Justice Onyeabor. The suit is to the effect that Transurb Technical Consult Ltd be wound up and the Directors (including Chief Hope Uzodinma) be declared bankrupt as loans collected by the company have not been serviced and cannot be repaid. Mr. Chairman, imagine the embarrassment to your Party if on the eve of the elections, your candidate is declared bankrupt.
In addition to the above, by the Annual Returns filed on behalf of the company, no particulars of indebtedness was presented. This is in clear breach of section 331(2)(a) of the Company’s and Allied Matters Act which states that:
"The accounting records shall be sufficient to show and explain the transactions of the company and shall be such as to
(a) disclose with reasonable accuracy of any time, the financial position of the company.
Section 331(3b) CAMA states -
"The accounting records shall in particular contain a record of the assets and liabilities of the company".
From the financial statements of affairs, filed alongside the Annual Return forms on behalf of the company, it is clear that the company is in default. Though we concede that a company is a body corporate capable of suing and sued in its corporate name, however, section 331(1) of the CAMA goes further to state:
“if a company fails to comply with any provision of Section 331 or 332(1) of this Act ,every officer of a company who is in default shall be guilty of an offence unless he shows that he acted honestly and that in the circumstances in which the business of the company was carried on the default was excusable"
Section 332(2) states as follows:
"an officer of a company shall be guilty of an offence if he fails to take all reasonable steps for securing compliance by the company with section 322 of this Act or has intentionally caused any default by the company under it.”
It should be noted that so far, in line with sections 331, 332, 333 and 371 of the CAMA 1990, the financial statement of company makes no recourse to her debts. It can therefore be said, that these loans as secured by the company through her directors, were secured by her directors for their own personal aggrandizement and therefore in contravention of section 331, 332, 333 and 371 of the CAMA 1990.
Sir, in line with Section 66(1)(e) of the 1999 Constitution, no person shall be qualified for election to the Senate or House of Representations if he is an undischarged bankrupt having been adjudged or otherwise declared bankrupt under any law in force in any part of Nigeria.
As earlier indicated there is presently a subsisting suit to the effect that Transurb Technical Consult Ltd be wound up and her directors declared bankrupt. It is therefore advisable that a candidate with such antecedent should not be allowed by the party to contest an elective post so as not to truncate the aim and aspirations of the party if eventually declared bankrupt by the court. It will be a big risk for the party. Kindly find attached all relevant documents in respect of the above matter.
CONCLUSION
We have decided to bring all the above facts to your attention because we believe that, as a responsible Party, you will not deliberately sponsor candidates with such heavy moral and legal burden hanging around their necks. This is especially so as you are not short of alternative men and women of proven integrity and track records to fly your flag.
We call on you to fulfill your promise to the electorates to field only men and women of high integrity to run for political offices by refusing to clear Chief Hope Uzodinma as even an aspirant to the Imo West Senatorial District and to advise him to submit himself to the law by going to face his criminal trial in court for obtaining money by false pretences, popularly called 419.
Our clients are prepared to pursue this matter to its logical conclusion in case you opt to ignore our information and to field him as your candidate.
Accept our best wishes.
I remain yours most trusted.
FESTUS KEYAMO, ESQ.
HEAD OF CHAMBERS
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your an idiot
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on December 9, 2011 - 11:58.
your ignorance would lead you to hell if you know nothing about betrayeal search it up, i wonder who gave you a laptop ignorant fool!!!!!!!
hope uzodima
Submitted by chigoze obi (not verified) on July 17, 2011 - 15:23.
Hi my brother hope i resptc you so much you a king ilike hope congrtatulaion i have problem hear in senegal please help out of this problem thanks
What happened to the story below, the public needs to know
Submitted by Naija Pics (not verified) on April 14, 2011 - 17:29.
I was wondering why we never heard about the electoral fraud committed in Ideato South, Imo State that was posted to you. Here below for the post, See pics of Rochas Okorocha, APGA gubernatorial candidate for Imo state, Nigeria holding unto electoral result sheets while posing as an INEC returning officer during Saturday's election in Ideato South, Imo State, Nigeria. I understand that the post had pictures that were taken in real time events. The public needs to see these pictures so i urge to make your verification and do what you do best.
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MY UNCLE IS ORLU'S CANDIDATE.
Submitted by MISS UZODINMA VICTORIA (not verified) on March 11, 2011 - 18:36.
UNCLE CONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR TREMENDOUS WINNING OF THE CASE WITH OSITA IZUNASO. WE ARE REALLY PROUD OF YOU.YOU ARE THE PRIDE OF OMUMA, ORU AND ORLU IN GENERAL. WE ARE WAITING FOR YOUR INAUGURATION. GO AHEAD WE SUPPORT YOU.
my advise
Submitted by Okechukwu Mbonu (not verified) on February 2, 2011 - 15:53.
Respectable Hope Uzodinma,
Please kindly quit because you have alot of skeleton in your cupboard. Remember what happened to akuchinyerenwata.
ADVISE TO HOPE UZODINMA
Submitted by Okechukwu Mbonu (not verified) on February 1, 2011 - 13:56.
With all due respect to you Mr. Hope Uzodinma. You are one man that his name rings a big bell within and outside the state of IMO politically and otherwise.
I must be very candid with you, with the wave of political revolution hoovering withing the country right now, you might be disgraced out of the political game if you are not careful. The Nigerian citizenry and the IMO state citizens at large are now politically educated and will surely do everything possible to disgrace you out of the political game.
You and i know it that you have a BIG skeleton in your cupboard, i will advise you to lie very low and enjoy your money. Look for any appointments within the state or federal government. I can see some people who are solidly working to bring you down with solid facts about your past. I am also aware that you saw what happened to OKWELLE?
I see you as a very intelligent and responsible man, "PLEASE LEAVE THIS POLITICS AND GO ON WITH YOUR LIFE"
hope
Submitted by chris uzo (not verified) on January 30, 2011 - 19:39.
In this life, people will wakeup and started saying what they know notting about.
most of you are here in europ for many years, notting to show for it.
most of you, your people have given up hope, here you are judging a man who have given alot to his people single handedly.
all your so called saint what have done in your area.
and so called Eddie Agbor when was last time you visited Nigeria maybe 30 years ago, how would know what is going right now, going by what you read here based on that you are Judging same like Chief Hope Uzodinma then you are a big Fool.
THE PROBLEM WITH IMO
Submitted by Arinze nwa (not verified) on January 23, 2011 - 22:47.
THE PROBLEM WITH IMO AFTER MBAKWE, IS THAT IT IS FILLED WITH CRIMINALS AND 419NERS IN THE NAME OF POLITICIAN. IT IS VERY SHAMEFUL THAT IN IMO STATE TODAY, THERE ARE NOT EQUALS OF PEOPLE LIKE PETER OBI, CHRIS NGIGE, DORA AKUNYILI, AND MANY OF THEM, ALL IN ANAMBARA STATE. THAT IS WHY ANAMBARA IS PROGRESSING RAPIDLY. GOOD AND GREAT LEADERS MAKE GOOD AND GREAT STATE. IF WOMEN LIKE DORA AKUNYILI WERE IN IMO, SHE WOULD HAVE JOINED PDP. BUT SHE KNOWS THAT GOOD PEOPLE DON'T PARTY WITH PDP. AGAIN, THOSE OF THEM IN IMO, KEMA CHIKWE, IWUANYANWU, ATHUR, UDENWA, ARARUME, HOPE UZODIMMA,UDEAGU, ARE ALL OF THE SAME FEATHER AND THE SAME WOLF FOLD. THIS MAKES IT VERY DIFFICULT FOR IMO CITIZENS TO SEE LIGHT. WE AS IMOLITES WILL RARELY SEE PROGRESS AS OCCULT MEN, CRIMINALS, 419NERS, UNPATROTIC LAZY IDIOTS ARE RULING. A CLEAR LOOK AT OHAKIM'S GOVT, BEFORE THE CONDUCT OF LG ELECTIONS, SHOWS THAT HE WAS ONLY SELECTING THOSE PAST 419NERS AS LG ADMINISTRATORS. FOR WHICH I SAY THAT THERE IS A CHAIN OF EVIL BEING PASSED FROM A GENERATION TO THE NEXT. MY PRAYER IS THAT GOD WILL PUNISH THOSE WHO FOR THEIR SELFISH INTEREST,SEE GOOD IN WHAT IS INTRINSICALLY EVIL, THEREBY PROLONGING THE SUFFERINGS OF IMOLITES IN HANDS OF THESE WICKED ANTAGONISTS?WHOEVER IS SUPPORTING HOPE FOR ORLU SENATORIAL ZONE, SHOULD PROVIDE A LIST OF HIS ACHIEVEMENTS IN THE ZONE. WHAT QUALIFICATION HAS HE? WHO AMONG YOU CAN IN THE NAME OF GOD, AFFIRM THAT HOPE UZODIMMA WAS NOT A 419NER? AND TO THOSE WHO INSTRUMENTALIZE FORGIVENESS AS REFUGE FOR UNQUALIFIED CANDIDATES, I WOULD ASK: WOULD IT BE A CRIME IF WE LEAVE A CONVICTED CRIMINAL, NO MATTER HIS LEVEL OF REPEPNCE, AND ELECT A SAINT? WHY ARE NIGERIANS TOO LEISSEZ FAIRE, IN DECIDING FOR THEIR FUTURE? WHY DO THEY PREFER A BAG OF RICE AND SALT TO THEIR FUTURE? WHEN WE WILL STOP HAVING EMBECILES IN OUR MIDST: MEN WHO ONLY KNOW HOW TO READ, BUT CAN'T UNDERSTAND, AND SO NOT CULTURED? WHOEVER IS SAYING YES, WHEN HE SHOULD SAY NO, JUST BECAUSE HE RECEIVED SOME MONEY AS BRIBE, SHOULD KNOW THAT HE IS ALSO DIGGING HIS GRAVE AND THAT OF HIS FUTURE GENERATIONS BY SO DOING.
Nonsense without facts!!
Submitted by Dk Uzoukwu (not verified) on January 17, 2011 - 16:44.
If hope wins, I may take a leave of absence to help him and out people in any way if he asks for it. Whether your name is David Mark, Mark John, Rick Mark or whatever, we carelessget it. Why not pay close attention to your own area and elect a saint from your family. Intact, it that if it fits your need, just do it. Orlu people has nit complained at all, therefore, take it and just showlve it. Remember that what goes around comes around. Hope is not a saint, without sin, there will be no forgiveness. I personally admire Hope and wish him and will vote for if I'm around. We have to put our petty politics aside and come together to help out country tackle all of the challenges facing Nigeria. Happy New Year. Let us engage in civil discussion that will help and promote peace and unity in. Nigeria.
Thanks
Dk
governor Ikedi Ohakim is a 419
Submitted by johnmark (not verified) on January 16, 2011 - 01:50.
IKEDI OHAKIM AND HOPE IS A WELL KNOWN 419 SO WE HAVE TO SAY NO TO THEM THAT IS ONLY WAY IMO STATE WILL MOVE FOR GOOD
Hope!! Congratulations!!
Submitted by Dk uzoukwu (not verified) on January 15, 2011 - 18:36.
Hope!! Congratulations!! Happy New Year!!
Ladies n Gentlemen!!
I come from the same area and personally know Chief Hope Uzodinma. He is a talented individual and someone who is appreciated by his people. Pls leave us alone. He will be our next senator period. Who are you to tell us who we shall elect to represent our interest?
Pls mind your business and look for new clients. You are entitled to your opinion but not to your facts.
Dk
WHAT?
Submitted by proffins on January 11, 2011 - 20:23.
Kayamo has to speak for the benefit of a common man both in orlu and environ.You had better STOP the deceit yourself and not my learned gentleman Festus Keyamo.
Excessiveness of power tossle.
Submitted by proffins on January 11, 2011 - 20:19.
Let justice prevail, infact if i have my way, Ohakim too should be made to face the music as he is operating under his whims and caprices on a popular slogan 'The new face of Imo' where is spending a tremendious whopping some of money and that of the recent ten thousand jobs has not been visited.
Re-Kayamo
Submitted by Udeze chike (not verified) on January 11, 2011 - 16:25.
Festus Kayamo,or Wtah ever you call yoursef. Retire to your constituency and play that politics of self destruction, rancour and bitterness there.
Do NOT Decide for Orlu people who they ll give thier Vote.
enough is enough stop this deceit now.
We can't be deceived again, we want Senator Hope Uzodinmma
Submitted by Chibuzo (not verified) on January 2, 2011 - 08:05.
Please verify your story with fact before jumping to conclusion. This is for those calling 419ner and bankruptcy and those that even claim to personally know Chief Hope Uzodinmma. I doubt if you know him when you use those words. This is a strategy you employ to buy cheap voters in the 90's,20's but not 2011, we can't allow it to happen again. What has happened to Orlu for the past years? Those ancient barbaric political strategy is not what we need in the modern society. All we need is developement and progress, somebody who can take us to the next level and Hope Uzodinmma is who the cap fit at the moment. He can stand tall in the senate and that is an advantage for Orlu people. Try to read his road map for Orlu developement and then make your judgement.
PDP, SAY NO TO UZODIMMA, HE IS A WELL 4..er.
Submitted by Adanna Ikeji (not verified) on December 22, 2010 - 23:19.
Hope Uzodimma isgovernor Ikedi Ohakim's paddy. Ohakim's was once aspiring deputy governorship candidate with Uzodimma as the governorship candidate. Birds of the same feather flock together. Ohakim may want to dislodge Izunaso from the senate so that from 2011 May, (if ever he wins re-election) 419ers can nearly take over the whole of Imo state from governor to legislators.
Uzodimma has never meant any good for Orlu. In fact, he has been a stumbling block to the aspirations of the largest senatorial state in the southeast, (if not the whole of Nigeria), to be created a deserved state. Uzodimma creates divisions in Orlu.
PDP cannot afford to field a well known tainted candidate for senate Imo West seat.
Hope Uzodinmma is our choice.
Submitted by Steven mbamara (not verified) on December 20, 2010 - 18:29.
Festus Keyamo or whatever you called yourself, you should go to hell and mind your business, Chief Hope Uzodinmma is Orlu's people's choice ok , even u keyamo are u a Saint? Hope Uzodinmma is our choice.
Believe it or not Hope is our man
Submitted by chibuzo (not verified) on December 20, 2010 - 10:39.
Believe it or not Chief Hope Uzodinmma is Orlu's people's man.Those calling names, we know where you came from but untill we are together we are no where.The truth is that Orlu want men that can be respected and get to Orlu what belongs to Orlu people. It is high time we work together for the progress of orlu poeple and support somebody that influentail even as an ordinary citizen let alone senator. Hope Uzodinmma is not a saint as any other person, but is capable in all remifications in handling Orlu affairs even in Aso Rock.
God gives power to who He
Submitted by Sabastian Chuks (not verified) on December 17, 2010 - 18:41.
God gives power to who He likes and we can do nothing about it. Afterall Saint Paul was the highest killer before The Lord met him on his way to kill christians in Damascus. Hope may have repented of old ways of doing things. He may be a changed person now so God could still use him to deliver us after Nzeribe was there for over ten years under different presidents from Shagari to Obasanjo yet he did nothing for the people of Orlu.I dont even know Izunaso's programme of achievements so let us try Hope believing that goodluck will follow us this time.
Onwa is Orlu's man.
Submitted by Ndubuisi (not verified) on December 17, 2010 - 05:10.
Chief Hope Uzodinma (Onwa) is the man for Orlu senate post. Name calling or whatever innuedo cannot and will not stop him. (Aka ekpuchi onwa)Hope is a man of class and can stand shoulder to shoulder with anyone anywhere anytime. So keep keep quite mr Anonymous. It's Hope for Orlu. Hasta luego desde Espana
Is Imo State cursed or what ?
Submitted by Nwandu (not verified) on December 15, 2010 - 22:41.
it seems Imo state is cursed. people like Hope should be in jail now and not dreaming of going into politics let alone Senate. anyway what else do you espect from a state governed by somebody like Ohakim. God save us.
Need No Criminals or Ex-Criminals in the Senate
Submitted by Odirah (not verified) on December 15, 2010 - 20:26.
We already have enough criminals in the senate. We do not need any more of them. Those sympathizing with Hope Uzodimma are totally wrong. Once a thief, always a thief. There is no redemption, nor reformation for people like Hope Uzodimma. I know him personally and would not want him to represent me at any level even if my life depended on it. Those days should be in our past when criminals get a free ride in Nigeria. Why do we not care about a person's past in order to give him/her a future assignment? If his business is at the verge of bankruptcy, how would he care about the people of Imo state first before his own existence/business and the flamboyant lifestyle which he has been used to? No wonder things are the way they are in Nigeria! Mr. Keyamo is right. At a time Imo people are groaning and moaning from the criminality of their governor, some people would like to increase the number of criminals in elected office in Imo State. Heck no!
Keyamo Sholud Keep Quiet!!!
Submitted by kingsley U. (not verified) on December 15, 2010 - 10:45.
Festus keyamo should go and set down!! after all, who is he? A Serious 419ner in disguise.
Nigerians can no longer be deceived by bogus activist/lawyer who are all out to enrich themselves at the pretense that,they are fighting for our dear country and rule of law.
Where was Keyamo when only falana was battling and risking his life to free 27 soldier who were convicted to murder after representing this country meritoriously in a peace keeping mission.(I gaze no financial benefit let them die)
kc
Who is a saint in this Country
Submitted by Eddie Agbor (not verified) on December 14, 2010 - 09:39.
All lm saying is let the best person wins, if Hope was once a 419ners as you put it, can you tell me in this Country who is not a 419ner started from the President to the counslors is there any good person in the govenment of this country?, as long as we alow somebody like Daivd Mark to preside over this Country at the National assembly level then what do you espect,so if you use a thief to catch a thief l think by the time they finised killing themselves then we will have a country we will call our own and l belive this will happen soonest in the Name of the Lord.
Oh, My State -Imo!
Submitted by Ndigbo Kulienu N'ura (not verified) on December 13, 2010 - 20:14.
What have we done in Imo State that the more we wish these evil men should leave us alone the more they troop out in large numbers to highjack our political landscape. It is amazing that Hope Uzodinma of all reknowned 419ners is aspriring to represent us in the Senate. No wonder nothing good comes out of from the National Assembly as these are the caliber of people that populate it. May God save us from these evil men who have been trading our future for their selfish ends.
