14/07/2023
BREAKING: COURT REAFFIRM UKAEGBU AS APGA CHAIRMAN.
14th July, 2023
By Ikedieze Omereisinkwo
A high court of Abia State presided over by the Chief Judge of the state, Hon. Justice Lilian Abai has reaffirmed Prince Nnanna Ukaegbu as the substantive chairman of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, Abia State Chapter and restated that his tenure subsist.
In the judgment delivered on the 30th day of June, 2023, the court restated that the Order given in favour of Prince Nnanna Ukaegbu is Still subsisting and remains valid and the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) having lost it's Appeal at the Court of Appeal, Owerri Division cannot turn around to purportedly conduct a Congress on 23/5/2019 to elect the Claimants; Rev Augustine Ehiemere, Elder Sunday Onukwubiri and their State Working Committee.
" The Party (APGA) was restrained from implementing or giving effect to any decisions and activities pertaining to the running of the affairs of the Party at the, Ward, Local Government, Zonal, and State levels and the argument that the Defendant if not suspended his tenure would have expired in 2015 is of no moment. I find as a fact that the claimants have not proved they are entitled to the relief sought in this suit and I resolve both questions 1 and 2 against them. This Suit is dismissed."
Senior Personal Assistant to the State Chairman, Nze Ken Anunobo who spoke to our correspondent said the current judgment is in tandem with previous judgments in this matter and reaffirms the decisions of the Court of Appeal, Owerri Division and that the last pretence by the marauding gang who held the party hostage in the state has been removed. He further stated that with the current position of the court all purported decisions taken by the party since 25th September, 2018 are of no moment and the party in the state will now forward to the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC validly elected officers of the party that emerged at the last Congresses in the State.
All efforts to contact the claimants failed.
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