The Centre for Credible Leadership and Citizens Awareness has questioned the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on what the name of Chief Victor Oye is still doing on the INEC website?
Addressing the media on Friday in Abuja, the Director General of the Coalition, Dr. Nwambu Gabriel wondered on what grounds is Chief Victor Oye’s name being retained on the INEC website?
“This act by INEC casts a shadow of
doubt on the credibility of the coming election, he said.
The statement read partially,” As a coalition, we have observed with keen interest the controversy surrounding the corrected version of the Supreme Court Judgment of May 9, 2022. Despite the controversies, the lead Justice of the Panel Hon. Justice Mary U. Peter-Odili (Rtd), in other to ensure that justice prevails, had to write from retirement to clarify to all parties that Chief Edozie Njoku was the National Chairman of the All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA) that was wrongly removed at the Jigawa State High Court.
“In her letter dated November 7, 2022, the lead Justice and other members of the panel pointed out the misconception arising from the slip of pen and tongue on paragraph 1 of page 13 of the October 14, 2021 judgment and that this error had long been corrected.
“Interestingly, all the parties to the suit including INEC were duly served. This notwithstanding, the Commission is yet to honor the Supreme Court Judgment.
“A few days ago, January 19, 2023, the Chief Justice of Nigeria through the Chief Registrar of the Supreme Court, while admitting that Chief Victor Oye’s name was ‘erroneously inserted’ in the Judgment further confirmed Chief Edozie Njoku as the National Chairman of APGA and requested him to come forward with a motion to the Court for the regularization of the corrected version of the Judgment.
The coalition, therefore, urged Professor Mahmood Yakubu and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), in the spirit of fairness and justice, to look into the name of Chief Victor Oye on their INEC’s website because it sends the wrong signal both home and abroad.
