As the Supreme Court ruling of Tuesday, February 16, 2021, in Appeal No.: 377/2020 between Igo Aguma V Isaac Abbot Ogbobula & 2 Ors. continue to elicit mixed reactions, conflicting interpretations, and dissenting opinions from law specialists and laymen alike, Chieftain of the All Progressives Congress and erstwhile National Publicity Secretary of the defunct New Peoples Democratic Party (nPDP), Chief Eze Chukwuemeka Eze, has offered some clarification over the speculations and seeming uncertainties that have trailed the verdict.
In a statement made available to media houses, Chief Eze said the appellant, Igo Aguma, having sufficiently been made to grasp the stupidity and unreasonableness of his conjectured legal struggle, wilfully, through his legal team, Emeka Etiaba SAN, withdrew his contest but artfully predicated the retraction upon the footing that the action was a pre-election matter and therefore statute-barred, in a bid to sustain their voyage of political merchandise and e