The All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA) has kicked against the decision by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to substitute its duly elected governorship candidate, Prof. Chukwuma Charles Soludo, with someone it described as “an impostor.”
Addressing a press conference at the party’s national headquarters in Abuja on Friday, the party’s national chairman, Chief Victor Oye, said some impostors had conspired to cause confusion in APGA and embarrass its leadership using INEC.
“There are fillers from INEC that one Jude Okeke and his co travellers want to infiltrate INEC to publish an aspirant that did not make it through to the primary of APGA and to announce him as the governorship candidate of APGA. If that development comes true,” he said.
Oye said there aws subsisting order of the Federal High Court in Awka directing INEC to maintain the status quo and receive the particulars of Prof. Soludo and his deputy, Dr. Onyekachi Ibezim, submitted by his leadership and publish the same.
“They want to cause confusion in our party because they are afraid that APGA will win again. If anybody is strong politically, he should go to the people to test his strength and not go through the back door.
“We know that it will not last. We have already appealed against the Jigawa judgement and the court sat on the 14th of this July in Kano. To tell you how wicked the impostors are, apart from going to Jigawa to get the bizarre judgement in which my name was not even there, they procure a fake lawyer to present INEC and APGA.
“They went to court in Jigawa to confuse the judge, pretending that they were the genuine party leaders. How can you talk about a change of leadership of APGA with the national chairman who is still alive, and without adhering to the constitution of the party? As a law-abiding party, we have appealed against the Jigawa judgement.
“I use this opportunity to call on President Buhari and leadership of the National Assembly to call INEC to order. The law enforcement agencies should deal with these impostors who are causing confusion in Nigeria political life.”
