The Interim National Management Committee of the Inter Party Advisory Council (IPAC) led by Dr Leonard Nzenwa has been accused of living in denial of the Appeal Court judgement which quashed the February 6 de-registration of political parties by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).
Chairman People for Democratic Change (PDC), Barrister Emeka Igwe, who made the allegation in a press statement on Sunday also expressed shock that Dr Leonard Nzenwa has continued to parade himself as the chairman of Interim Management of IPAC, a position he said is not known to the IPAC Code of Conduct, 2019.
The statement further accused the Nzenwa team of wrongly advising the electoral body to disobey the judgement an act which he said showed their credentials “as hypocrites who profess democracy without believing in the rule of law.”
The PDC chairman further stated that “If INEC disobeys a valid judgment of the Court of appeal does not invalidate the judgment Because the judgment of the court is potent and alive as of today.”
The statement read: “We are not surprised, but appalled by the rantings of Dr. Leonard Nzenwa who has been going about parading himself as the chairman of IPAC, a position that is non existent in the IPAC Code of Conduct, 2019.
“Dr. Nzenwa also lives in great denial about the existence of the Court of Appeal decision in Re:ACD & 21 ors vs AG Federation & INEC, Appeal No. CA/ABJ/CV/507/2020 wherein the Court unanimously nullified all the acts done or deemed to have been done on 06/02/2020 declaring the deregistration illegal, and deemed the deregistration as having not occurred, and which INEC has found difficult to appeal.
“For Nzenwa and his cohorts to turn themselves into the megaphone of INEC has shown their credentials as hypocrites who profess democracy without believing in the rule of law.
“Because of their greed, and threats by presence of men like Chief Ralphs Okey Nwosu, A.A Salaam, Peter Ameh, Barrister Godson Okoye,, Hon. Adekunle Rufai Omoaje, etc they have been going about urging INEC to disobey the aforementioned Court of Appeal decision, which unknown to them is for their own good and benefit, knowing that lightening does not strike twice in the same place.
“Indeed there is no division in IPAC as High Chief Peter Ameh did hand over to Chief Ralphs Okey Nwosu on 04/09/2020, just a day before the expiration of his term which was restored by the Court of Appeal.
“Dr. Nzenwa and his confederates must come to terms that the days of impostoring are over and should henceforth begin to obey and follow the duly constituted Central Management Cimmittee authority of Chief Ralphs Okey Nwosu, A A Salaam, Hon. Adekunle Rufai Omoaje, and Elder Chuks Achusi who were handed over to in the full glare of all the national television cameras, the major print media, and bloggers in Nigeria.
“Dr. Nzenwa and company should forever remain grateful to the dogged determination of the 22 political parties that went to court to challenge the illegality of INEC’s decision to follow the laid down constitutional and other statutory provisions knowing that lightening hardly strike twice in the same place.”
