APGA chieftain, Ugwu begs Tinubu to save party from Soludo, Yakubu

A stakeholder of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, from the southeast, Obiora Ugwu, has written to President Bola Tinubu, on the lingering intra-party crisis ravaging the national leadership of the party.

It comes on the heels of a court judgement, which purportedly sacked Barrister Sly Ezeokenwa, and affirmed Edozie Njoku as the authentic APGA national chairman by the court of the land.

In an open letter, signed and addressed to Tinubu and made available to newsmen on Saturday, Ugwu berated an alleged abuse of the judiciary arm of the Nigerian government by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, in respect to the leadership tussle between Edozie Njok, Victor Oye and Barr Sly Ezeokenwa.

According to him, “The leadership tussle has been going on since 2018, the Supreme Court delivered a judgement on March 24, 2023, that settled the matter, reaffirming Njoku as the national chairman of APGA and the Supreme Court directed INEC to recognize him with immediate effect.”

Ugwu regretted that the INEC chairman, Professor Mahmoud Yakubu, has refused to carry out the order issued by the Supreme Court since then.

He said: “This has become ridiculous to the entire world and Nigeria in particular. No sane nation disobeys the Supreme Court’s judgement.

“This open letter is for you, Mr President, to wade into this matter to save the face of the Nigerian judiciary. The Governor of Anambra State and also the leader of APGA, Prof. Chukwuma Soludo, has continued to use money to prevent the INEC Chairman from carrying out the directives of the court, thereby ridiculing the Nigerian judiciary.

“Southeast and all APGA stakeholders are hanging on, expecting that the orders must be respected. Mr President, please, we ask you to save APGA from the hands of Soludo and INEC chairman, Yakubu.”