The Supreme Court docket has affirmed Sly Ezeokenwa because the Nationwide Chairman of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, placing to an finish the get together’s management dispute.
In two unanimous judgments on Wednesday, a five-member panel of the apex court docket held that Edozie Njoku wrongly laid claims to the APGA chairmanship.
Within the judgment learn by Justice Stephen Adah, the panel held that in its 2021 judgment, solely declaratory reliefs have been granted and the reliefs should not executory.
He added that there was no order or orders within the 2021 judgment to be executed.
The apex court docket famous that in its earlier judgment, it held that the problem of get together management or who turns into the chairman of a political get together is an inside affair to the get together.
Justice Adah held that it was fallacious for Njoku to have gone earlier than the decrease court docket to hunt enforcement in a judgment that had nothing to be enforced as no executory reliefs have been granted.
Justice Adah, then suggested judges of the decrease courts to be cautious, noting that the judges of the trial court docket and the Court docket of Enchantment, who declared Njoku because the APGA chairman have been fallacious to have heard his (Njoku’s) swimsuit.
He proceeded to put aside the judgment delivered by the Court docket of Enchantment in Abuja on June 28, 2024, which affirmed the judgment of the Excessive Court docket of the Federal Capital Territory, in Abuja, declaring Njoku because the APGA chairman.
The judgment in each appeals was utilized to the third attraction, referring to the identical subject of APGA management.
Nonetheless. the Supreme Court docket held that its earlier judgment within the attraction marked: SC/CV/687/2021, delivered on October 14, 2021, which was corrected on March 24, 2023, and on which Njoku purportedly relied to put declare to the get together’s chairmanship, didn’t confer on him any enforceable rights.
The court docket awarded N20 million on every attraction in opposition to two members of the Njoku-led faction — who’re listed as the primary and second respondents, bringing the whole price awarded within the three appeals to N60m.
Reacting to the judgments, Ezeokenwa recommended the judiciary for successfully placing an finish to the management dispute within the get together and affirming him because the chairman.
He famous that with its erudite judgments, the court docket has, as soon as once more, proved that it’s certainly, the hope of the frequent man.
Ezeokenwa mentioned, “We should always not all the time be saying dangerous issues in opposition to the judiciary. At present, I’m very pleased with our judiciary because the final hope of the frequent man.
“As I’ve all the time mentioned, our judiciary will all the time come by to avoid wasting our nation when the necessity arises. That’s what it has accomplished at present with the erudite judgments delivered at present by the Supreme Court docket regarding the management of our get together.
“As our lead counsel, Onyechi Ikpeazu (SAN) mentioned, what ought to not have taken place was created and has been dragged as much as the Supreme Court docket. It’s unlucky. Cash has been expended and the get together’s constructions destabilised simply due to somebody’s egocentric and inordinate ambition.”