Reinstated national chairman of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), Edozie Njoku, has sued for peace among stakeholders of the opposition All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), following the Supreme Court ruling that reinstated him
Njoku, who obtained the True Certified Copy (CTC) of the supreme court judgement, which has been served on the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and the Police on Thursday said the new leadership will take its time to address all the issues before taking over the party
The National chairman, who addressed the media in Abuja, emphasized that APGA heeds full reconciliation and healing among its injured and aggrieved stakeholders, adding he will pursue that vigorously, so that the party will return to its pre crisis a state
He said that the CTC was only made available on Wednesday, adding that he is taking his time to recognize all party stakeholder in his reconciliation move to return APGA to its pre crisis state.
It will be recalled that the Supreme Court on Friday, last week reaffirmed and restored Njoku as the authentic national chairman of APGA after a chairmanship tussle between him and Chief Victor Oye that has crippled the party for about four years.
On when he will move into the party’s national secretariat, he said: “Nigeria is banana republic. We are not baboons. There is always a process to things. A judgment came out yesterday, the certified true copy came out literally this morning.
“The CTCs were released yesterday. Before the end of tomorrow, INEC will be served. You can’t be talking to INEC without the documents. And from back channels, almost everyone has said enough is enough. This charade has gone on for too long.
“If you are going to the police, you have to serve them, if INEC is going to respond to you, you have to serve them, they have to read it to respond.
“We need to take things with law on outsides. The Supreme Court has given us a major ammunition; from the back channels, INEC has said we should send the copy and they will respond.
“I have had calls to take thugs and policemen to go and invade the party office but I will not operate at that level of gutter. Things will be done properly.”
The chairman who appealed for calm and reconciliation called on every member of the party to close ranks and unite for the forthcoming governorship elections in Kogi, Bayelsa and Imo States.
He said that the National Working Committee (NWC) of the party will soon meet to release a policy statement on how to proceed.
“APGA needs to reconcile. We are facing three elections coming up in a twinkle of an eye in Kogi, Bayelsa and Imo States. A timetable is going to be reeled out tomorrow and we are now going to work hard to see how we can get our act together. So, whosoever has been offended or hurt in the process of this journey, don’t take it out on APGA. Accept our apologies.
“I call on Oye again, all the former members of NWC, all the people in the wards, local governments, let us unite and move this beautiful party forward, “he pleaded.
