The All Progressives Grand Alliance is currently grappling with new challenges over the candidates it fielded for the 2023 general elections. The recent clarifications released by the Supreme Court on its October 14, 2021, judgment, have thrown the party into a frenzy of reconsideration.
The leadership disputation between Njoku and the erstwhile national chairman, Ozonkpu Victor Oye, travelled to Nigeria’s court of final instance, leading to the October 14, 2021, judgment, which held that officers elected at the party’s national convention of May 31, 2019, at Owerri, Imo State, constitute the authentic national executives of APGA.
But affronted by the judgment, which he described as a miscarriage of justice, Oye, supported and activated by the then Anambra State governor, Chief Willie Obiano, filed an appealed at the Court of Appeal, Kano. The appeal succeeded, describing the Jigawa State High Court sitting as lacking in territorial jurisdiction.
But instead of INEC acting upon the new information and enrolled order, the commission prevaricated and allowed Oye, instead of Njoku, to upload the list of candidates that emerged from his primaries as APGA candidates for the 2023 poll. To make matters more confusing, Dr. Festus Akande, the Director of Media, Press and Information of the Supreme Court, released a statement denying that all the CTCs of the amended judgment issued to Chief Edozie Njoku.
In a letter addressed to Chief Njoku dated November 7, 2022, the apex court noted that it corrected some clerical errors contained in the judgment delivered on October 14, 2021, in which the name of Chief Victor Oye was recorded instead of that of Chief Edozie Njoku, the current national chairman. “This error was pointed out to me by other members of the panel, who reminded me that Chief Victor Oye was not a party to the appeal or the proceedings, which emanated from the Jigawa High Court. However, in the course of the trajectory of errors, the name of Chief Victor Oye kept recurring in the record of the judgment instead of the right party to the proceeding, Chief Edozie Njoku.”
APGA presidential candidate nominated by the Chief Edozie Njoku leadership, Dr. Chekwas Okorie, told The Guardian over the phone that the ball is now in court of INEC, stressing that in anticipation of the recent development, Njoku was carrying the electoral umpire along.
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