APGA Chairmanship tussle: Supreme Court fixes March 24 for ruling

By Vivian Okejeme, Abuja

The Supreme Court, will on March 24, lay to rest the battle for the seat of the chairmanship seat rocking the All Progressives Grand Alliance(APGA).
A factional National Chairman of the party, Chief Edozie Njoku, had approached the court praying the court to correct a typographical error in its judgement.
According to the plaintiff, the Apex Court, had in the appeal that was presided over and delivered by Justice Mary Peter-Odili (Rtd), on October 14, 2021, wrongly handed the leadership of the party to Chief Victor Oye instead of Edozie Njoku.
Njoku had in an application he filed through his team of lawyers led by Mr. Chike Onyemenam, SAN, noted that the Supreme Court had in a letter it wrote to him on January 19, addressed him as the National Chairman of APGA.
He told the court that in the letter the supreme court asked him to approach it by way of a motion to regularize the said judgement.
Consequently, relying on Order 8 Rule 16 of the Supreme Court Rules, Njoku re-approached the court to correct the typographical error and slip in the lead judgment of the Court in the appeal that was presided over and delivered by Justice Mary Peter-Odili (Rtd), on October 14, 2021.
Specifically, he urged the apex court to correct an accidental slip at Page 13, lines 3 to 4 of its judgment, where instead of writing the name of ‘Edozie Njoku’ who was unlawfully removed from his position as the person that was validly elected as National Chairman of APGA at the convention the party held at Oweriri in 2019, mistakenly inserted the name of Victor Oye, who was not a party in the substantive suit that gave rise to the appeal.
It will be recalled that Police had earlier dragged the Appellant before a High Court of the Federal Capital Territory, alleging that he forged a judgement of the apex court.
The 5-man panel of the Apex court led by Justice Kukere Ekun adjourned to March 24 to rule on the matter.