Victor Oye described the reports of his removal as APGA National Chairman as fake
By Emma Ogbuehi
The National Chairman of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), Chief Victor Oye, has dismissed reports in some sections of the media purporting that he has been removed from his position by the Supreme Court.
There have been reports on the social media purporting that Oye has been sacked by the Supreme Court as National Chairman of APGA.
But in a telephone interview with TheNiche on the issue, Oye described the report as unfounded. It is fake news from desperate minds. Please ignore them. The Supreme Court put paid to the matter in October 14 last year. What they are doing now is trying to exhume a corpse that has long been buried. They are not serious”, he said.
A viral report on the social media by a certain APGA Interactive Forum (AIF) on Tuesday, May 10, 2022, alleged that the Supreme Court had sacked Oye as the National Chairman of APGA.
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The report reads, “The Supreme Court of Nigeria has just reviewed its judgement which it earlier gave on October 14, 2021. In the said judgement, the Supreme Court delivering ruling on the appeal filed by Mr. Jude Okeke against the judgement of the Appeal court, Kano Division stated that the removal of Ozo Victor Oye was not justiciable. That it was the internal affairs of the party and thereby struck out the appeal.
“It was on this basis that INEC recognized Oye and accepted Prof Soludo as the candidate of the party for November 6, Anambra state governorship election.
“But yesterday, the Supreme Court sat again to review the judgement. Chief Edozie Njoku had written to the Supreme court demanding a review of the judgement on the grounds that it was not Oye but him, that was removed by the Jigawa State High Court which was challenged at the appeal court Kano.
“Chief Njoku told the Supreme Court that Oye was a mere interloper who sought to join the appeal and should NOT have been mentioned in page 13 of the judgement as the national chairman of APGA.
“The Supreme Court in its wisdom sat yesterday and reviewed the judgement. The 5-man panel agreed that it was an injustice to have mentioned Oye as the national chairman of APGA.
“They therefore reviewed the judgement, corrected the error and inserted the name of Chief Edozie Njoku as the National Chairman of APGA”.
AIF Media claimed to have the Certified True Copy of the reviewed judgement in its possession and would release the update shortly.
