Showing posts with label Uwemedimo Nwoko. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Uwemedimo Nwoko. Show all posts

Saturday, 5 September 2015

Why I signed 15 A’Ibom wards’ result sheets – PDP Witness

File photo: A'Ibom Commissioner for Justice, Mr. Uwemedimo Nwoko (first from left) with PDP legal team at the Election Tribunal


A defence witness at the Akwa Ibom State Governorship Election Petitions Tribunal, Bassey Willie, admitted on Friday that he signed all the result sheets for Oron Local Government Area of the state during the April 11 governorship poll.

Sunday, 23 August 2015

A’Ibom lawmaker blasts justice commissioner, says he has abandoned responsibilities for politics

Mr. Uwemedimo Nwoko


By Nse Peter


Member representing Itu State Constituency, Akwa Ibom State House of Assembly, Mr. Idongesit Ituen has accused the Commissioner for Justice in the state, Mr. Uwemedimo Nwoko of abandoning his responsibilities to pursue personal interest in politics, says a news report published in the official Facebook page of the State Assembly.

Friday, 5 June 2015

2015 A’Ibom Gov Election: Unmasking Akwa Ibom’s Orubebe

Mr Uwemedimo Nwoko


By Imam Bello

What could make a former Attorney-General remove his suit, fold his sleeves, tight the fist of his hand and get ready for a fight with the All Progressives Congress (APC) agents?
The agents were Tuesday carrying out the order of the Election Petition Tribunal to inspect, copy and scan ballot papers and other election materials used to declare former Governor Godswill Akpabio as winner of the March 28 Akwa Ibom North West Senatorial district election.

Wednesday, 3 June 2015

Rights Activists Tells Police Chief to Arrest Ex-A’Ibom Attorney General, Nwoko

Uwemedimo Nwoko


By Nse Peter


Human Rights activist, Mr. Inibehe Effiong has called on the Inspector General of Police, Mr. Solomon Arase to arrest and prosecute the immediate past Attorney General of Akwa Ibom State, Mr. Uwemedimo Nwoko for allegedly disrupting the inspection of voting materials used in the senatorial election in which the former governor of the state, Chief Godswill Akpabio was returned as winner.

Ex-A’Ibom commissioner, Uwemedimo Nwoko causes stir at INEC office

Uwemedimo Nwoko


By Etim Ekpimah

The immediate past Commissioner for Justice and Attorney General of Akwa Ibom State, Mr. Uwemedimo Nwoko, on Tuesday, caused a stir at the Independent National Electoral Commission office in Uyo during the inspection of electoral materials by the agents of the All Progressives Congress.

Tuesday, 14 April 2015

Free Odudu Ukpanah, let him rejoin his family to mourn their father, lawyer writes Akwa Ibom Attorney General, Uwemedimo Nwoko


Engr. Albert Ukpanah, a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party from Ukanafun Local Government Area, Akwa Ibom State, was brutally gunned down in his home at Abak. The official police report said the murder was ‘politically motivated’. But in a rather sad and terrible twist, late Albert Ukpanah’s only son, Odudu was arrested, detained and arraigned for the assassination of his own father, even when he (Odudu) isn’t a politician! He has remained in detention without trial for several months now. Many people within and outside Akwa Ibom State feel Odudu is innocent, and have been calling for his release, the latest being this open letter to the Commissioner for Justice and Attorney General of Akwa Ibom State, Mr. Uwemedimo Nwoko (pictured above). The letter, written by a Lagos-based lawyer, Mr. Fidel Sylvanus Albert, is so straightforward, logical, reasonable and touching. Read the letter after the cut…….

Tuesday, 27 January 2015

Akpabio’s commissioner in N100million property controversy


Mr. Utibe-Abasi Nwoko, a lawyer and younger brother of the newly sworn-in Commissioner for Justice, Uwemedimo Nwoko, is at the centre of a controversy over a building in Ewet Housing Estate, Uyo, Akwa Ibom State.

Wednesday, 10 April 2013

Godswill Akpabio’s lawyer, Nwoko accuses Oro of not supporting Annang governorship aspiration in 2007

Barr. Uwemedimo Nwoko

By Nse Peter

Agitation for zoning of the governorship position in Akwa Ibom State in the next election has received a major blow from a renowned constitutional lawyer and a member of Gov. Godswill Akpabio’s legal team, Barr Uwemedimo Nwoko who has accused the Oro ethnic group of not supporting the Annang governorship aspiration in 2007.