Chidiebele Obika | I-Witness News
The former national Chairman of the All Progressives Grand Alliance(APGA) party, Ozonkpu Dr Victor Ike Oye has revealed that no court in Nigeria had at any point in time pronounced or declared Chief Edozie Njoku as the national chairman of the party.
He made the revelation yesterday, September 10, 2024 when he appeared on Channels Television programme, “Political Paradigm” which was aired at eleven o’clock in the night and was hosted by Terry Ikumi.
Dr Oye wondered how people who do not exist anywhere around the party hierarchy would go to Birnin Kudu in far away Jigawa state for a matter that happened in Awka to procure a judgement over leadership of a well structured party like APGA that has laid down producers for the emergence of its leaders.
” They went and appealed the same judgement they got from Birnin Kudu at the Kano Court of Appeal. That was when we got wind of it. I applied for joinder and the Court of Appeal Kano in its wisdom found merit in my application and granted it. And immediately my name was joined, that was the end of the case”
He thanked God that Court of Appeal, Kano Division helped the party to quash the judgement of Jigawa High court and the subsequent supreme court judgement delivered in October 2021 that affirmed the judgement of the Kano Court of Appeal.
He pointed out that INEC had in the past recognised someone else as the candidate of APGA for the Anambra 2021 governorship election on the strength of the Birnin Kudu judgement but replaced same immediately with the name of the proper candidate of the party for the guber poll, Prof. Chukwuma Soludo after the Kano Court of Appeal judgement that quashed the Birnin Kudu judgement.
He reasoned that the present INEC led by Prof Mahmoud Yakubu acted in error for replacing the national chairman of APGA’s name, Barr Sly Ezeokenwa with an imposter and averred that it does not change anything in the party.
” INEC wrote court order. And we asked, which court gave the order”.
” You see, if you want to permanently solve the APGA problem, bring everybody together. Then ask this person, produce the report of the national convention that produced you as national chairman. Then, INEC will produce the report of the one they monitored. And that settles it”.
On whether the issue will affect Governor Soludo and APGA in the 2025 governorship election in Anambra state, Dr Oye while laughing it off said that as far as APGA was concerned, the national chairman of APGA is Sly Ezeokenwa and the national leader of APGA is Governor Chukwuma Soludo.
He further said” ” Gal. 6: 7-8. Do not be deceived for nobody can mock God. Whatever a man or woman sows, that he/she shall reap. All these people you see will reap what they’ve sown. I’m a prophet of God. APGA is a spirit if they do not know. They are swimming in a shark infested water. I advise them to withdraw”.
