Edozie Njoku, the National Chairman of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA. has called for a dialogue with Governor Charles Soludo of Anambra State.
Njoku made the suggestion following his affirmation by the Supreme Court ad the authentic APGA chairman. Soludo is the only governor under the party’s banner.
The party has been polarised by two factions led by Njoku and Victor Oye, who has the backing of Governor Soludo.
But following the apex court ruling, Njoku said the Anambra helmsman must embrace dialogue with a view to moving the party forward.
The apex court had through its judgment of Friday overruled itself for erroneously included the name of Oye in its earlier judgment by retired Justice Mary Odili in 2021.
In the lead ruling that was delivered by Justice Mohammed Lawal, the court said it has the powers to review its judgement and correct such “accidental slip or error”, when it is brought to its attention.
It, therefore, issued an order, expunging the aspect of the judgement where Oye’s name was reflected as the national chairman of the party.
The ruling followed a motion that was brought before the court by Chief Njoku.
Njoku had in an application he filed through his team of lawyers led by Mr. Chike Onyemenam, SAN, urged the apex court to correct a typographical error in its judgement, which he said wrongly handed the leadership of the party to Chief Oye.
The Applicant noted that the Supreme Court had in a letter it wrote to him on January 19, wherein it addressed him as the National Chairman of APGA, asked him to approach it by way of a motion to regularize the said judgement.
Relying on Order 8 Rule 16 of the Supreme Court Rules, Njoku prayed the court to correct the said error in the lead judgment it delivered on October 14, 2021, in an appeal that was presided over by Justice Mary Peter-Odili (Rtd).
He specifically urged the apex court to correct an accidental slip at Page 13, lines 3 to 4 of its judgment, where instead of writing the name of ‘Edozie Njoku’ who was unlawfully removed from his position as the person that was validly elected as National Chairman of APGA at the convention the party held at Owerri in 2019, mistakenly inserted the name of Victor Oye, who was not a party in the substantive suit that gave rise to the appeal.
