Yakubu, Oye Risk Jail over Refusal to Recognise Njoku as National Chairman
The chairman Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof Mahmoud Yakubu, and factional leader of the party, Chief Victor Oye, risk jail terms.
The duo has disobeyed a court order which declared Chief Edozie Njoku as the National Chairman of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA).
According to Njoku, going by an order of court which started counting from November 9, Yakubu and Oye have just 14 days to recognise Njoku as APGA’s National Chairman or be jailed for contempt of court.
He added that the committal charge against INEC boss and Oye, Njoku and members of the National Working Committee of APGA cautioned Yakubu and Oye, not to treat with levity, the 14-day grace given to them by the Judge to obey the order of the court made on May 10, 2023, or be jailed.
The court had also declared that all the actions taken or to be taken by Oye, as the Chairman of APGA and the INEC as regards to congresses, conventions, primaries, meetings or flags off campaign of any kind whatsoever in disregard and disobedience to the Judgment of the Supreme Court, made on October 14, 2021 and subsequently corrected on March 24, 2023, are unlawful, illegal, null, void and of no effect whatsoever.
Njoku, expressed dismay that even with the position of the Supreme Court on the matter, yet some media organizations still turned blind eyes to judicial pronouncements on the issue, to the effect that he is the authentic National Chairman of APGA.
