{"id":18112,"date":"2018-04-03T07:45:37","date_gmt":"2018-04-03T07:45:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=18112"},"modified":"2018-04-03T08:31:19","modified_gmt":"2018-04-03T08:31:19","slug":"newton-agbofodoh-heads-to-appeal-court-as-son-alleges-political-prosecution-of-his-father","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=18112","title":{"rendered":"NEWTON AGBOFODOH HEADS TO APPEAL COURT, AS SON ALLEGES POLITICAL PROSECUTION OF HIS FATHER"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><code><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- www.deltanewsroom.com --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-2163942495525027\" data-ad-slot=\"1411897411\" data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/code><\/p>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"e6863\" data-offset-key=\"42srr-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"2umrl-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"2umrl-0-0\">FIRST son of Chief Newton Agbofodoh, the embattled traditional Prime Minister (Unuewvodo) of Ekpan in Uvwie Local Government Area, Delta State, Mr. Darlington Newton, has alleged high political undercurrent in the death sentence by hanging, slammed on his father by a Delta State High Court sitting in Asaba.\u00a0 <\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"e6863\" data-offset-key=\"fk2cp-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"fk2cp-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"fk2cp-0-0\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"e6863\" data-offset-key=\"2htqc-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"2htqc-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"2htqc-0-0\">In a chat with newsmen in Warri, he claimed that the purported political grievance against the sacked local government chairman, \u201cWas extended to my father who is neither a member of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, nor All Progressives Congress, APC.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alternativeadvert.com\/show.php?z=30&amp;pl=15869&amp;ad_type=59&amp;rl=180\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"e6863\" data-offset-key=\"97v-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"97v-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"97v-0-0\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"e6863\" data-offset-key=\"9m1hr-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"9m1hr-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"9m1hr-0-0\">It is just because Baro is my father\u2019s nephew. My dad was accused of not working for PDP in the 2015 governorship\/House of Assembly elections.\u201d <\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"e6863\" data-offset-key=\"58ebi-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"58ebi-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"58ebi-0-0\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"e6863\" data-offset-key=\"ckfh-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"ckfh-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"ckfh-0-0\">According to him, sentencing his father, Chief Agbofodoh to death over the murder of one John Mogidi on the testimony of Innocent Akemu that he was an accomplice in the murder \u201craises more doubt, because the same Innocent Akemu, a PDP member, initially said he did not know anyone in .\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"e6863\" data-offset-key=\"907up-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"907up-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"907up-0-0\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"e6863\" data-offset-key=\"7fios-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"7fios-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"7fios-0-0\">Calling on the Federal Government, members of the traditional institution to intervene with a view to saving his father over perceived taboo in Urhobo land, especially Uvwie, Newton vowed that they will head to the Appeal Court and explore all legal avenues \u201cuntil justice is served.\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div data-offset-key=\"7fios-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"ckfh-0-0\"><a href=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/NEWTON-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18113\" src=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/NEWTON-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"757\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/NEWTON-1.jpg 757w, http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/NEWTON-1-237x300.jpg 237w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 757px) 100vw, 757px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FIRST son of Chief Newton Agbofodoh, the embattled traditional Prime Minister (Unuewvodo) of Ekpan in Uvwie Local Government Area, Delta State, Mr. Darlington Newton, has alleged high political undercurrent in the death sentence by hanging, slammed on his father by a Delta State High Court sitting in Asaba.\u00a0 \u00a0 In a chat with newsmen in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":18113,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[4549,1232,1584],"class_list":["post-18112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state","tag-darlington-newton","tag-ekpan","tag-newton-agbofodoh"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/NEWTON-1.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4oswh-4I8","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18112"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18115,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18112\/revisions\/18115"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}