Founder of the All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA), Chief Chekwas Okorie, has called on “Nigerians who are lovers of democracy to admonish Governor Soludo of Anambra state to allow the party to breathe”.
Okorie in a statement on Sunday said, “the public, especially, members of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) in Nigeria and abroad have continued to be fed with mischievous and misleading propaganda regarding the status of Chief Edozie Njoku as the National Chairman of APGA and the National Working Committee (NWC) under his leadership”.
Okorie said, “this is in spite of the verifiable fact that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has since complied with the judgment of the Supreme Court delivered on the 23rd of March 2023, which affirmed the national convention of APGA held at Owerri in Imo state on the 31st of May 2019, where Chief Edozie Njoku and members of the National Working Committee of the party were duly elected.”
The statement noted that “these purveyors of the false narrative have variously stated that APGA was not a party to the suit at the Supreme Court and that Chief Edozie Njoku was not affirmed the national chairman of the party.
The statement continued, “To sustain their mischief, they continued to refer to the judgment of the Supreme Court delivered on the 14th of October, 2021, by a panel presided over by Hon. Justice Mary Peter-Odili now retired.
“This judgment which is now defunct contained many errors which Hon. Justice Mary Peter-Odili (JSC rtd) in an elucidating letter written on the 7th of November, 2022.”
Part of Justice Odili’s letter read, “However, in the cause 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 proceedings, Chief Edozie Njoku.”
He stated that this gazetted suit has exposed the lie that APGA was not mentioned in the Supreme Court judgment when indeed APGA was a party to the suit.
“It is to be emphasised that the erroneous judgment of 14th October 2021 has since been discarded and has ceased to exist in the records of the Supreme Court of Nigeria.
“It is this judgment that the FCT High Court 40, Bwari enforced in its well-considered judgment delivered on 6th June 2023, which specifically affirmed Chief Edozie Njoku as the National Chairman of APGA,” he said.
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