Judgment delivered last Monday by a Federal High
Court in Asaba on the lingering factional crisis in the Delta State chapter of
the All Progressives Congress (APC) has obviously rekindled the party's
factional rivalry.
Although the judgement nullified all the actions
and appointments made by the Jones Erue-led state executive committee in line
with the Chief Cyril Ogodo-led state executive council, Senator Ovie Omo-Agege
representing Delta Central, has said he remains the senator-elect for his
district despite the verdict by Justice Tosin Adegoke.
The court upheld Chief Cyril Ogodo-led executive
council as the authentic state APC executive body.
Although Ogodo was sworn in as the state chairman
of the party by the immediate past APC National Chairman, Chief John
Odigie-Oyegun, his successor, Adams Oshiomhole, inaugurated the Erue body.
The court also set aside ward and local government
executives in the Erue-led executive and upheld the Ogodo wards and local
government executives.
Delivering the judgment, the presiding Judge,
Justice Tosin Adegoke, said primary election conducted by the Erue-led
executive body was null and void, invalidating the nomination of Chief Great
Ogboru, Senator Ovie Omo-Agege and all other candidates nominated by Erue for
the 2019 elections.
Since reports of landmark judgment hit the
newsstand and airwaves, different groups sympathetic to the Erue faction have
launched attacks on the court decision, with some accusing the mainstream APC
faction led by Olorogun O'tega Emerhor of 'anti-party activities' especially
during the recent general election in Delta Central senatorial district.
A statement by the APC state Director of
Communications, Nick Ovuakporie, under the Erue faction said: “The attention of
the APC in Delta State has been drawn to a court judgement being circulated
that purportedly conferred legitimacy to a group of impostors parading
themselves as State Executive Committee members of the party in state.''
The statement urged APC faithful in the state ''to
disregard the charade being celebrated as judgement which is at variance with
the consent judgement of the Federal High Court Abuja division.
''The party wishes to state unequivocally that Erue
is the chairman of the APC in Delta State and that same is not contentious.''
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