Chief Victor Oye, National Chairman, All Progressives Grand
Alliance (APGA), says he is in the Court of Appeal to vacate the order
restricting him from presiding over the party’s affairs.
An Enugu High Court had mandated the Independent National
Electoral Commission (INEC) and the Nigeria Police to recognise Chief Martin
Agbaso as the party’s Acting National Chairman.
Oye told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Friday in Awka
that the order by Justice A.R. Ozoemena on May 22 was a miscarriage of justice
because he was not a party in the matter.
He said that he was in court to clear his name and get the
order vacated.
“For me, I had to go to the Court of Appeal because my name
was inadvertently mentioned.
“I had to go to the Court of Appeal as an aggrieved party to
remedy my image; that I have been wickedly soiled by the order of the Enugu
High Court.
“Those bound by the order of that court, those who were
supposed to have been bound by the decision of that court were INEC and the
Police.
“And these two Federal Government’s agencies are in the
Court of Appeal to vacate that heinous and detestable order.
“This is because there is no part of the world where that
type of order could stand,’’ he said.
Oye said he remained the authentic chairman of the party
because he was produced by its national convention which was supervised by INEC,
noting that Agbaso was a stranger to the party.
He said his leadership would conduct the primary election of
APGA in Anambra ahead of the Nov. 18 Governorship polls in the state.
He added that the crisis would not affect the party in any
way but make it stronger.
“INEC has the records of the proceedings of our national
convention and I am the only one legitimately produced by that convention, so
how did Martin Agbaso arise?
“We don’t know him in our party, he is a stranger, I am the
national chairman of APGA and I am going to conduct the primaries to produce
Obiano as candidate of the party.
“The Supreme Court has ratified Makarfi as the National
Chairman of PDP going by the convention we held in Port Harcourt.
“That is the only way you can produce the national chairman
of a party is through a convention, the convention produced me who produced
Martin Agbaso?’’
Oye urged the judiciary to address issues in the nation’s
democracy by being above board in the dispensation of justice, expressing confidence
in the system as the last hope of the common man.
“I am a concerned Nigerian, I want a judiciary that is
corruption-free, I want a judiciary that is fearless, I want a judiciary that
will transmit justice and not injustice,’’ he said. (NAN)
Daily Trust
