The tussle over who is authentic APGA National Chairman and Governorship candidate has shifted to the Federal High Court, Abuja as Chief Jude Okeke, one of the factional National Chairmen of APGA has launched a legal battle to get the court to uphold and affirm him as the authentic Chairman of APGA and issue perpetual injunction against Chief Victor Oye and Chief Edozie Njoku from parading themselves as APGA Chairmen.
Okeke is seeking judicial backing to declare that only him and not Oye or Njoku have the power to forward the name of the Governorship candidate for APGA for the November 6 gubernatorial election having conducted the primary on 1st July 2021 which produced a member of House of Representatives Hon.Chuma Umeoji as the APGA flag bearer.
Chief Victor Oye led faction of the party produced Prof Chukwuma Soludo as candidate for the Governorship election while Chief Edozie Njoku produced himself as the party’s while Chief Jude Okeke’s faction produced Hon. Chuma Umeoji as its Governorship candidate.
Chief Okeke is also asking the Court to restrain both Oye and Njoku from submitting any names of any other candidate except the name of Hon. Chuma Umeoji as the validly nominated candidate of the party.
No date has been fixed for the hearing yet.
