Browsing: Maxi Okwu

He said: “If we decide to go back to those who founded the party, including Chief Chekwas Okorie, the Igboezue Group and the Igbo Delegate Assembly in the North, among others, APGA will gain more grounds

However, Powl withdrew the prayer that the court should direct INEC to accept Okwu’s candidates

The government on March 13 dropped the nominees submitted by the Barrister Maxi Okwu leadership of the party pending the resolution of APGA’s protracted leadership crisis

In a petition to the commission dated January 27, 2014, Okwu said that contempt proceedings had been instituted against Umeh and Alhaji Sani Shinkafi, the party’s National Secretary, for undermining the judgment of an Abuja High Court

Okwu’s statement comes on the heels of the judgment by an Abuja High Court that he is the bona fide National Chairman of APGA in place of Chief Victor Umeh

Giving ruling in an exparte motion seeking a leave to serve the respondents the motion of notice, Justice A.R. Mohammed held that the prayer of the applicants were not out of place

Okwu told newsmen that the judgement, which nullified a high court judgment against the faction led by Chief Victor Umeh, was unacceptable

Okwu said the mandate of the committee included taking a holistic look at the internal crisis of the party, proffer solutions and make recommendations that could return peace and unity to its fold

The defendants are the Independent National Electoral Commission, the Inspector-General of Police, the Anambra State Commissioner of Police, APGA, Okwu and Okoye

The position of the commission was premised on the ruling by the Court of Appeal staying the execution of the judgment of the Enugu High Court that had earlier sacked Umeh

But a few hours after the election, reports filtered in that the Enugu Division of the Court of Appeal has acceded to the request of Umeh for a stay of execution of the judgment dismissing him as the chairman of APGA

Shinkafi, who appeared with another factional Chairman of the party, Chief Victor Umeh, on a national television programme on Monday, said he was not a party to the appointment of Okwu as chairman of the caretaker committee

He said APGA would be the third major political party in Nigeria, if not the second in a short while

It is expected that Okwu will, anytime from now, announce a merger of the CPC with the APGA faction led by Obi

Chime, it was gathered, is in the Enugu State Governors Lodge in Abuja