A senior magistrate Court sitting in Abuja has issued a bench warrant for the arrest of former governor of Imo State, Senator Rochas Okorocha, and a former Senator, Ifeanyi Araraume, for criminal conspiracy, forgery and tendering of false documents.
Also ordered to be arrested are Timothy Ama Chuks and Amen Okorocha, who allegedly conspired with Rochas Okorocha to forge and tender false APC results, claiming to have been won by the former governor.
All police officers across Nigeria are, by the bench warrant, authorised to seize Okorocha, Araraume, Timothy Chuks and Amen Okorocha and produce them before the senior magistrate Court 3 at Jiwa, Abuja.
The arrest warrants came as the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) asked both the police and DSS to investigate Okorocha for parading fake APC primary results.
In the bench warrant dated September 09, 2026, the accused were charged with criminal conspiracy, forgery and uttering false documents.
In the case numbers CR/M/JW/084/2026,and CR/M/JW085/2026, the matter is between the Inspector-General of Police and the four wanted persons.
Meanwhile, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has disowned a document being circulated by the defeated APC senatorial aspirant for Orlu zone, Senator Rochas Okorocha, claiming that he won the primaries.
INEC declared that the authentic document by APC before it showed that Governor Hope Uzodimma won the primaries upon which his name was duly forwarded to it by the APC as the candidate for Imo West Senatorial zone (Orlu zone).
In a strongly worded letter to the Commissioner of Police, Imo State Command, and his DSS counterpart, INEC declared the document being paraded by Okorocha as fake and urged the security agencies to investigate the former governor.
In the letter dated 8th October, 2026 and signed by the Resident Electoral Commissioner, Imo State, Chukwuemeka C. Ibeziako, INEC declared that it was reporting a case of “fraudulent and fictitious All Progressive Congress senatorial party primary report for Imo State dated 18th May, 2026”.
It raised the alarm that contrary to the document duly signed by APC and forwarded to its headquarters with Governor Hope Uzodimma as the clear winner of the primary election, the one circulating in the social media purported Okorocha as the winner, hence the petition.
“The fictitious document wrongly presented Senator Ethelbert Rochas Okorocha as the elected candidate for the party”, INEC lamented.
While enclosing the original results that declared Uzodimma as the rightful winner of the primary and the fake one being paraded by Okorocha, INEC urged the police and the DSS to thoroughly investigate the forgery.
“In these circumstances, I urge you to graciously use your good offices to investigate and neutralise this spurious conduct that has serious likelihood of causing the breakdown of law and order in Imo State”, INEC charged the police and the DSS.
