The All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) has urged the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to release the purported judgement it relied upon to withdraw its recognition of the party’s national chairman, Barrister Sylvester Ezeokenwa and confer the same on Chief Edozie Njoku.
The embattled Ezeokenwa, during a media briefing at the end of the party’s National Working Committee (NWC) meeting, expressed the party leadership’s displeasure over INEC’s delay in making public a copy of the judgment it relied upon to recognize Njoku.
He assured the Inter-Party Advisory Council (IPAC) and State Independent Electoral Commissions (SIECs) of the party’s preparedness to participate in the coming local government council elections in differeant parts of the country.
He said the IPAC and SIECs should ignore the activities of persons unknown to the party but have been parading themselves as leaders, even when as interlopers, they are relying on a clerical error in a Supreme Court ruling to claim legitimacy.
“What was intriguing is the claim by the INEC that its decision was pursuant to an alleged court order. Sadly, INEC is yet to furnish us or even the members of the public with the phantom court order that compelled them to take the obnoxious decision, one month after,” Ezeokenwa said.
“We call on the chairman of INEC at this point to be courageous and resilient to stand by the truth which he knows on the leadership tussle in APGA and ultimately correct the unpopular recognition of Edozie Njoku whose alleged Owerri convention had long been declared invalid by a court of competent jurisdiction,” he said.
He said that there is no subsisting order validating the Owerri convention Njoku claimed to have produced him as chair.
Ezeokenwa was elected as chair of the opposition party in May 2023 after an elective convention was held in Awka, Anambra State.
However, in July 2024, INEC recognised Edozie Njoku as the national chairman of APGA, saying it relied on a court order to do so.
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