He was brought to court by officials of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission.
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It said Okorocha jumped administrative bail granted him by the agency.
In attendance are Emeka Nwajiuba, Ogbonnaya Onu, Senator Ken Nnamani, Uju Ken-Ohanenye and Okorocha.
The first republic politician and former lawmaker who represented Imo West Senatorial District, died on Sunday at the age of 83.
Okorocha made this known in a letter to the Senate President which was read by Ahmad Lawan at plenary.
Lawan made this known in his remarks after a point of order raised by Senator Rochas Okorocha to draw the attention of the Senate to the heightening spate of insecurity in Imo state.
Okorocha, who represents Imo West Senatorial District in the Senate, stated this on Wednesday in Abuja while speaking with a select group of journalists ahead on his 59th birthday celebration on Thursday.
The party’s National Secretary, Caretaker/Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee, Senator John James Akpanudoedehe, spoke on the development.
Nwoko, an alleged accomplice in the N1.4bn money laundering charge against Paul Usoro, a former President of the Nigerian Bar Association had been at large for over two years.
Tietie, in a statement made available through his law firm, Forthright Chambers, said such action could undermine the rule of law through which the governor rode into power.
The suit, with case No. HOW/191/202, had the former Governor’s wife, Nkechi Okorocha, Incorporated Trustees of Rochas Foundation and Senator Rochas Okorocha as 1st, 2nd and 3rd respondents respectively against the Attorney-General of Imo State.
Okorocha, in a statement issued in Owerri the state capital on Wednesday by his spokesperson, Sam Onwuemeodo, boasted that the governor will “not win me.”
The News Agency of Nigeria recalls that a squabble ensued between both sides’ supporters on February 21 when Okorocha allegedly broke into the Royal Spring Palm Apartment, Owerri, sealed by the Imo State Government on February 19.
Okorocha and three of his political associates were on Sunday arrested by the state police command after he and his supporters together with armed policemen, Soldiers, and the personnel of National Security and Civil Defence Corps stormed Royal Spring Palm Estate, Owerri, and unsealed it.