The national chairman of the Action Alliance (AA), Kenneth Udeze, has dismissed reports that a Federal High Court in Osogbo, Osun State, delivered a contempt judgment against Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, the immediate past Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).
In a statement issued on Thursday, Udeze insisted that the party never sued Yakubu and never authorised anyone to do so.
He said, “On the issue of the purported court order against the former INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmoud Yakubu, I want Nigerians to disregard such false rumours, as there’s no such judgement.”
Udeze challenged aggrieved members of the party to produce the alleged order, describing the claims as false, misleading, and politically motivated.
“The busybodies making noise with such frivolous propaganda should present the said order and, moreover, allow the retired former INEC Chairman to enjoy his retirement, having contributed so much to electoral reforms and deepening democracy in Nigeria,” he added.
The AA chairman explained that the Osogbo judgement being circulated was linked to the party’s prolonged leadership tussle, which had been settled in favour of his executives up to the Court of Appeal.
He revealed that the aggrieved members, having lost at the FCT High Court, Federal High Court Abuja, and the Court of Appeal, Abuja division, secretly filed a fresh case at the Osogbo division of the Federal High Court against INEC while claiming to act on behalf of the party.
“The application filed at the Federal High Court, Osogbo was allegedly secretly done to deceive the court,” Udeze said.
Directing the party’s legal team to challenge the Osogbo ruling, Udeze urged INEC to continue recognising his leadership in line with multiple Court of Appeal judgments.
“That the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) is hereby demanded by the national leadership of the Action Alliance not to give recognition to the judgement obtained by one Adekunle Rufai Omoaje, his agents and privies from the Federal High Court Osogbo,” he said.
He further advised the faction to “wait for their appeal at the Supreme Court and stop this forum shopping of favourable judgement from one judicial division of the Federal High Court to another.”
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