{"id":85776,"date":"2021-09-09T21:30:53","date_gmt":"2021-09-09T20:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=85776"},"modified":"2021-09-09T21:30:53","modified_gmt":"2021-09-09T20:30:53","slug":"apga-leadership-tussle-appeal-court-dismisses-edozie-njokus-suit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/other-news\/apga-leadership-tussle-appeal-court-dismisses-edozie-njokus-suit\/","title":{"rendered":"APGA leadership tussle: Appeal Court dismisses Edozie Njoku\u2019s suit"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"m#msg-f:1710457136230568995\" class=\"mail-message expanded\">\n<div class=\"mail-message-header spacer\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Court of Appeal, Abuja Division, on Thursday, dismissed an appeal by Chief Edozie Njoku and Chinedu Okoro challenging the judgement of its Kano Division delivered on August 10, which had affirmed Chief Victor Oye as the National Chairman of the All Progressives Grand Alliance.<\/div>\n<div class=\"mail-message-content collapsible zoom-normal mail-show-images \" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<div class=\"clear\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">\nRuling on the appeal marked CA\/AW\/256\/ 2021, filed against Barrister Sylvester Ezeokenwa and five others, the appellate court held that the appeal constituted an abuse of court process.<\/p>\n<p>In a unanimous decision, the court said considering the principle of starre decisis, it was bound by the judgement of Kano Division of the Appeal Court delivered on August 10, which had affirmed Chief Victor Oye as the National Chairman of the All Progressives Grand Alliance.<\/p>\n<p>Dismissing the appeal, the panel said it lacked the jurisdiction to entertain the suit, because doing so, \u201cwill amount to this court sitting on appeal over its own judgement\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis appeal is incompetent and is dismissed for want of jurisdiction.<br \/>\n\u201cThis is a final judgement and parties are bound by the outcome except to appeal at the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cConsequently, the sum of N10million has been awarded against the appellant, in favour of the 1st and 2nd respondents.<\/p>\n<p>Justice Jummai Sankey gave the lead judgment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mail-message-footer spacer collapsible\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Court of Appeal, Abuja Division, on Thursday, dismissed an appeal by Chief Edozie Njoku and Chinedu Okoro challenging the judgement of its Kano Division delivered on August 10, which&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":85777,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-other-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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