APGA management dispute: Supreme Court affirms Ezeokenwa as nationwide chairman
The Supreme Court has lastly laid to relaxation the management dispute within the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) because it affirmed Sly Ezeokenwa because the celebration’s genuine nationwide chairman.
The apex court docket’s five-member panel of justices delivered two unanimous judgements on Wednesday, invalidating Edozie Njoku’s declare to the APGA nationwide chairmanship place.
It held that its earlier verdict on the enchantment marked SC/CV/687/2021, delivered on October 14, 2021, and corrected on March 24, 2023, which Chief Njoku purportedly relied on to put declare to APGA Chairmanship, didn’t confer any enforceable rights on him.
The court docket, in a lead judgment learn by Justice Stephen Adah, clarified that the reliefs granted in 2021 concerning the APGA management dispute had been merely declaratory and lacked enforceable rights.
It famous that it significantly held that that challenge of management, or who turns into the chairman of a political celebration, was an inside matter that isn’t justiciable.
Justice Adah declared that Njoku’s resolution to method a decrease court docket to implement a judgement that lacked any enforceable orders was misguided.
Additionally, he criticized the decrease courts for mistakenly counting on a earlier Supreme Court resolution to declare Njoku the National Chairman of APGA.
Consequently, Justice Adah vacated the judgement the Court of Appeal in Abuja delivered on June 28, 2024, which upheld the decision of a High Court of the Federal Capital Territory that declared Njoku because the National Chairman of APGA.
The Apex Court additional imposed a advantageous of N20 million every on two members of the Njoku-led faction of APGA who had been listed as respondents within the case.
It held {that a} third enchantment regarding the APGA management tussle would abide by its resolution within the matter.
The three appeals had been marked: SC/CV/824/2024: APGA & one other vs. Chief Victor Ike Oye & others; SC/CV/825/2024: Chief Victor Ike Oye vs. Otunba Kamaru Lateef Ogidan & 2 others; and Chief Victor Ike Oye vs. Otunba Kamaru Lateef Ogidan & 2 others.
Reacting to the court docket’s judgement, Ezeokenwa praised the judiciary for resolving the APGA management dispute and affirming his place because the celebration’s genuine nationwide chairman.
He mentioned the court docket has, by way of its judgement, proved that it’s certainly the hope of the widespread man.
