Chairman, Board of Trustees (BOT) of All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), Chief Chekwas Okorie, on Friday opened up on the status of Chief Edozie Njoku as the party’s National Chairman and his leadership of the National Working Committee (NWC).
In a statement made available to Saturday Sun, the founder and pioneer National Chairman of APGA noted that the public, especially members of the party in Nigeria and abroad have continued to be fed with mischievous and misleading propaganda of the status of Njoku in the party.
He 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.“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.“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, stated as follows: ‘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.”
Okorie listed the errors to include the suit number used for the judgment of October 14, 2021, which belonged to another suit with different parties, different subject matter and different legal representations.
He added: “This was a critical clerical error, which was not the fault of the parties in the suit…
“On the 28th of June, 2024, in a landmark unanimous judgment, delivered via zoom by a panel of three Justices and watched by interested members of the public in Nigeria and in the diaspora resolved all the 10 grounds of appeal in favour of the respondents namely: Otunba Kamaru Lateef Ogidan and Alhaji Rabiu Mustapha – members of the National Working Committee of APGA, elected along with Chief Edozie Njoku at the Owerri convention.”
