The National Chairman of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), Mr. Victor Oye, has declared that his leadership of the party is not in dispute, arguing that the Supreme Court has not delivered a fresh judgment on the matter.
Oye made the declaration on Friday, during a news conference in Abuja.
He said the briefing was to make some clarifications on the rumour that the Supreme Court has given a fresh judgment on the chairmanship tussle between him and Mr. Edozie Njoku, which was settled on October 14, 2021.
He said the Supreme Court mere sat on Friday to correct a clerical error.
Oye said following a judgment, which purportedly affirmed the factional National Convention of APGA held in Owerri, Imo State, he approached the Court of Appeal in Kano to set aside the judgment.
He said that consequent upon that, the Court of Appeal delivered a judgment on August 10, 2021, which allowed the Appeal Court to set aside the judgment of the Jigawa High Court ,and the Supreme Court also upheld the Appeal Court’s judgment on October 14, 2021.
According to Oye, it is an act of mischief for people to contemplate that the Supreme Court delivered another judgment on March 24.
“The news has been going around about a purported judgment by the Supreme Court today; there was no judgment by the Supreme Court. No fresh judgment by the Supreme Court at all.
“The Supreme Court sat today for less than 10 minutes, to correct a clerical error on page 13 of the judgment that they delivered on October 14, 2021.
“What was the clerical error? At the Jigawa Birnin Kudo High Court, Edozie Njoku’s name was mentioned there as having purported suspended by the party, a fact alleged in the summons filed at the Jigawa High Court which was thrown away by the Appeal Court Kano.
“So that clerical error was just on page 13 of the judgment of the Supreme Court, just one name, Edozie Njoku to replace my name there because my name was not mentioned at the Birnin Kudo High Court.
“This is because I have never been suspended by anybody; I have always been the National Chairman of the party because I was duly elected by a national convention of the party held on May 31, 2019, in Akwa monitored by INEC,” he said.
He reiterated that on October 14 2021, the Supreme Court affirmed the judgment of Court of Appeal Kano after the appeal affirmed him as National Chairman, resting on the judgment of an Awka High Court, which has not been appealed till date.
He said there was no basis for a fresh case because the Supreme Court had affirmed the judgment of the Court of Appeal and dismissed all applications for joinder.
“It was dismissed, so there was no way the Supreme Court would have sat in judgment over its own judgment, because as far as we are concerned that judgment is Res judicata, it has been dealt with and gone forever, so Njoku cannot be Chairman.”
Oye expressed disappointment over some media reports on the issue, which were without clarification or balancing, adding that the story indicating fresh judgment is fake news.
– NAN