The National Chairman of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), Chief Victor Oye, has said reports on the social media purporting that he has been sacked by the Supreme Court as National Chairman of APGA is false and misleading.
In a terse response to enquiries from News Echo on the issue, Oye simply said fake news.
A viral report on the social media especially a Facebook site called APGA Interactive Forum (AIF) on Tuesday, May 10, 2022, alleged that the Supreme Court had sacked Oye as the National Chairman of APGA.
The report reads, “The Supreme Court of Nigeria has just reviewed its judgment which it earlier gave on October 14, 2021. In the said judgment, the Supreme Court delivering ruling on the appeal filed by Mr Jude Okeke against the judgment of the Appeal court, Kano division stated that the removal of Ozo Victor Oye was not “justiceable.” 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 judgment. Chief Edozie Njoku had written to the Supreme court demanding a review of the judgment 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 judgment as the national chairman of APGA.
“The supreme court in its wisdom sat yesterday and reviewed the judgment. The 5 man panel agreed that it was an injustice to have mentioned Oye as the national chairman of APGA.
“They therefore reviewed the judgment, corrected the error and inserted the name of Chief Edozie Njoku as the National Chairman of APGA.