Group urges NJC to investigate Justice C. O Ọkah for judicial rascality

At the highpoints of the crises that has besieged APGA, it is important to interrogate how some revered ranking members of the Temple of Justice have derailed the judiciary for some very personal and primordial sentiments.
After Owerri convention of May 31, 2019, an Ibadan High Court affirmed the convention that produced Chief Edozie Njoku. Afterwards, Oye approached the Ibadan Appeal Court to set aside the Ibadan High Court judgment.

On September 14, 2020, the Appeal Court Ibadan did the following;
a. It refused to set aside the judgment of the Ibadan High Court.
b. Dismissed Oye’s application for lack of merit and gross incompetence.
c. Ordered that Oye’s application should be delisted from the Court’s record.
The implication of the judgment of the Appeal Court Ibadan is that Oye lost the fight to give all the actions he undertook after May 15, 2019 a legal backing.

Two months later, while Oye’s wound was still dripping blood, he ran to Awka, in search of judicial reprieve, to get himself back to the office after having lost lawful claims to the office of the National Chairman of APGA.

Oye found a willing tool for the hatchet job in Justice C. C. Okah. Our investigations into Okah reveal that he is Governor Obiano’s kinsman. The Governor had nominated/appointed him a Judge in notable controversial and essentially contestable circumstances. Therefore, Okah’s Court is an extension of the Governor’s lodge; where despicable and Bureau De Change Court Orders and Judgments are procured. Perhaps, that is the only way for him to retain his son’s place in Governor Obiano’s cabinet. They secretly filed some spurious application without joining very crucial parties in Justice Okah’s court and he gave them judgement on November 18, 2020; with consequential orders in violation of a subsisting Ibadan Appeal court judgement, to set aside the Ibadan High Court judgment which they themselves appealed and lost. THE QUESTION IS, IS IT POSSIBLE FOR A LOWER COURT TO SET ASIDE A JUDGMENT THAT HAS BEEN UPHELD BY A HIGHER COURT OF COMPETENT JURISDICTION?

On January 16, 2020, Oye ran to Jabi Abuja High Court 11 in Suit No. FCT/HC/CV/2086/2019, before Hon. Justice O. C Agbaza, to shop for and obtained a spurious Court Order restraining Chief Edozie Njoku from functioning as the lawful National Chairman of APGA. When the order became public and Chief Edozie Njoku stormed Jabi High Court to defend himself, Oye quickly withdrew the case with a sworn affidavit and the matter was struck out with the orders repudiated and Chief Njoku reinstated by the same court as the APGA National Chairman.

By December 10, 2020, Chief Edozie Njoku in Suit No. FHC/BAU/CS/10/2020 approached the Federal Court Abuja seeking for an Order of Mandamus on INEC. Oye indicated interest to join the matter. While the judge was yet to give ruling, Oye proceeded to the Appeal Court Abuja on Interlocutory Appeal. On December 16, 2020, the Appeal Court asked all parties joined in the suit to return to the Federal High Court.
This case is still pending before Justice A. R Mohammed. Yet, Oye abandoned it and rushed down to Justice C. C. Okah’s court at Awka. Since Oye’s return to Awka, Justice Okah has continued to turnout various forms of controversial Court Orders. This is the reason why in the Suit No. A/201, fully aware of Justice Okah’s entanglement with Oye, Chief Edozie Njoku made it clear to the Court that has no confidence in Okah’s Court.

If honour is something that Justice Okah value, he would have quietly recused himself from this matter. It is important for the National Judicial Council to investigate Okah’s seeming interest in APGA matter.

It is stupefying that a matter as sensitive as APGA leadership tussle is being used to compensate Justice Okah by retaining his son, one Mr. Chibuzo Okah, as the Senior Special Assistant to the Governor Obiano on Pharmaceuticals and Drug Storage.

We had kept quiet all the while, believing that the Judiciary has an internal mechanism to rescue itself from demystification. However, with what is going on, we have chosen to call the attention of the NJC to this sensitive observation.

The phony portfolio assigned to Mr. Chibuzo Okah demands further probe just like the judgments emanating from his father’s Court.

EMERGENT GROUP
APGA