By Our correspondent
A stakeholder in the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA),Obiora Ugwu, has enjoined President Ahmed Bola Tinubu to intervene in the lingering crisis in the party and rescue it from what he called the stranglehold of the Anambra State governor, Prof Chukwuma Soludo and the Independent National Electoral Commission(INEC).
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 Njoku, Victor Oye and Sly Ezeokenwa.
He said,“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, Prof Mahmoud Yakubu, had refused to carry out an order issued by the Supreme Court in that respect.
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.
“South-East 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.”
