UPDATE: Supreme Court affirms Soludo as APGA guber candidate, Victor Oye as national chairman

The Supreme Court, on Thursday, affirmed former governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Professor Charles Soludo, as the governorship candidate of the All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA) in the forthcoming Anambra State governorship election.

The apex court also returned Chief Victor Oye as the national chairman of the party.

In a judgment of a five-member panel of justices of the court, the appeal filed by one Jude Okeke was dismissed for being an abuse of court process and lacking in merit and substance.

Justice Mary Odili who delivered the lead judgment awarded a sum of N1 million against Jude Okeke to be paid to APGA and Victor Oye and upheld the judgment of the Court of Appeal, Kano division which had earlier dismissed the suit of Okeke.

The apex court lambasted the appellants for engaging in forum shopping and crass abuse of the court process to get favourable judgment to suit their own purposes.

The unanimous judgment also took swipe at Okeke and some lawyers for attempting to mislead the court through multiple cases over the same subject matters.

Justice Odili noted that the appellants in the desperate bid to abuse the court moved their cases from the Anambra States to Imo and later to Jigawaa State where they eventually got judgment in their favour on March 31, 2021.

The Jigawa High Court judgment delivered in March was however voided and set aside by the Court of Appeal, Kano division on March 8, 2021, on the ground that the High Court of Jigawaa lacked jurisdiction to entertain the suit.

Justice Odili upheld the Court of Appeal decision that the Jigawa High Court lacked jurisdiction and the setting aside of the court’s finding.

The Supreme Court also agreed that the election of officers was an internal affair of respective parties and cannot be challenged in court.

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