The National Chairman of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), and a lawyer, Mr. Sly Ezeokenwa, has alleged that Edozie Njoku parading as the authentic chairman of the party, concealed the Supreme Court’s written response on its judgment and obtained INEC recognition, fraudulently.
Ezeokenwa who made the allegations when he appeared on Arise TV Morning Show, stressed the legal implications of such alleged fraudulent acts. He said that APGA is taking steps to remedy the misdemeanor through legal processes.
Giving details, Ezeokenwa emphasized that the alleged deceit and blackmail over the contempt conviction by Edozie Njoku and his proxies pressured the INEC chairman into submission. He highlighted an inordinate counter affidavit deposed by INEC on the challenge of their erroneous recognition of Edozie Njoku as APGA national chairman.
Ezeokenwa who presented the Supreme Court response on screen, noted: “INEC had claimed the Supreme Court returned APGA to the status quo prior to the Birnin Kudu Jigawa State High Court judgment, purportedly recognizing Njoku as the national chairman.
“However, the Supreme Court’s latest response clearly stated that it never made any consequential order recognizing Edozie Njoku as National Chairman and that INEC never disobeyed any judgment by not recognizing Njoku as APGA National Chairman.
“Edozie Njoku had applied for the Supreme Court’s interpretation of its judgment before the Court but concealed it from INEC and the FCT High Court since it was not in his favor until APGA obtained the same response this August.”
Ezeokenwa maintained that the purported Owerri Convention, which INEC never monitored, and the Supreme Court’s correction of its judgment on page 13, which cited Edozie Njoku as the Acting Chairman purportedly removed by Jude Okeke, and which have formed the basis for Njoku’s claim, have been clarified by the Supreme Court’s response on the interpretation of its judgment, which Njoku allegedly concealed from different courts and INEC.
While recounting series of court judgments, including three Appeal Court judgments, all in favor of APGA he noted that Justice Peter Obiora, one of the Appeal Court justices who sat on the recent appeal, stated in his concurring judgment that national chairmanship cannot exceed four years as prescribed by sections of the constitution and the Electoral Act, whereas Njoku is purportedly assuming his phantom office beyond this four-year limit.
Ezeokenwa urged INEC, in light of the newest revelation, to reverse the erroneous recognition given to Njoku and maintained to date that no court order mandated them to do so, even when they cited a court order in their recognition and failed to produce one upon request for such an erroneous act.
