The Jude Okeke-led leadership of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) has dismissed the ruling by the Awka High Court, which affirmed former Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Governor, Charles Soludo, as the candidate of the party in the November 6 Anambra state governorship election.
Addressing a press conference in Abuja, on Monday, the National Publicity Secretary of the faction, Ikechukwu Chukwunyere, averred that the ruling earlier given by High Court in Jigawa State remained in force.
He argued that apart from a higher one, a court cannot vacate the decision by another court with the same jurisdiction.
He stated that in compliance with the judgment of two competent High Courts, INEC published the name of Hon. Chukwuma Umeoji, a member of the Federal House of Representatives, is the valid and duly nominated candidate of the party and that all institutions of state must obey the judgment of Courts as it is the position of the law.
Okeke explained that the case in question was filed by the Oye Camp without notifying his group, that they only got wind of it on Friday and quickly mobilised their lawyers to apply to join the case but the judge declined because according to him, allowing the joinder would mean taking an adjournment for consequential amendment of the processes to reflect the new names joined.
Explaining further, the group alleged that justice Okaa on Monday morning in a Court surrounded by over a hundred and fifty policemen and soldiers and wherein every person who was not a lawyer was chased out of the court, delivered a judgment and predictably granted all the prayers of the applicants and even more without an opposition in place to have presented an argument.
Chukwunyere further alleged that the party chieftain authorised cases to be filed by all his executive members with a promise of monetary reward for anyone that could get a favourable judgment even as he stated that the judgment from Awka cannot vacate the judgment from Jigawa as they are courts of coordinate jurisdiction. He insisted that the Victor Oye group cannot change the position of INEC with it Monday’s judgement.
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