Chief Edozie Njoku, the National Chairman of APGA, has been denied bail in a case brought against him in an alleged forgery of a Supreme Court judgment.
Justice M. A Madugu of the FCT High Court 40, Bwari, who presided over the matter, ruled that Chief Njoku and Chukwuemeka Nwoga, the National Youth Leader of the party, be remanded in Suleja Prison while the matter is adjourned to November 30, 2022.
Njoku’s arraignment is based on a discredited claim by Victor Oye, the factional chairman of APGA, that the May 9th correction of the Supreme Court judgement replacing his name with Edozie Njoku was forged.
The Court had issued a bench warrant against Njoku and Nwoga when the case came up last week. At the Monday hearing, the trial judge vacated the bench warrant and adjourned till November 30th to enable the police prosecutor to respond to the bail application by Njoku and Nwoga.
The Supreme Court had, on October 14th 2021, ruled in an appeal by Jude Okeke that the removal of a party chairman is not justiceable as it is an internal party matter. The apex Court also affirmed that the leadership of APGA emerged from the Owerri convention of May 31, 2019.
On May 6th, Edozie Njoku wrote a letter to the Supreme Court panel of five justices headed by Justice Mary Ukaego Peter-Odili, which adjudicated on the Jude Okeke appeal, pointing out that the inclusion of Victor Oye’s name as the chairman that was removed by the Jigawa High Court was an error. Njoku’s letter stated that Oye was not at the Owerri convention and, therefore, could not have been removed by the Jigawa Court.
On May 9th, 2022, the Panel replaced Victor Oye’s name with Edozie Njoku as the chairman of APGA, whose removal was deemed not justiceable. This correction was served on the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC.
Victor Oye called the corrected judgment a forgery. He petitioned the Police and other security agencies.
In connivance with the governor of Anambra state, Prof. Chukwuma Soludo, who had privately boasted that only an Anambra person could be national chairman of APGA, Victor Oye embarked on a scheme to compromise the Supreme Court, INEC and the Police.
They procured the Chief Registrar of the Supreme Court, Hajo Sarki Bello, the Director of Litigation, Mohammed A.Dikko and a police officer, Ezekiel Rimasonte, who led the investigation.
