JUSTIN:AMICHI DESERVES PEACE, CLARITY AND THE RULE OF LAW

 AMICHI DESERVES PEACE, CLARITY AND THE RULE OF LAW

By Amichi Citizens for Peace and Rule of Law

The leadership question in Amichi should not be reduced to personalities, factions, social-media battles or competing political narratives.

There is a pending suit before the High Court of Anambra State, Nnewi Judicial Division, in Suit No. HN/215/2022. On 21 July 2026, the Court made an interlocutory order directing the parties to maintain the status quo and restraining steps capable of altering the leadership situation pending determination of the applications before it.

The tenure of the then President-General subsequently expired on 6 August 2026. That fact is important and should not be ignored. But neither should it be used as a licence for any faction, trustee, official or interested group to unilaterally determine the legal effect of the Court's subsisting order.

The Court did not finally determine the leadership dispute. It did not confer a fresh tenure on any office-holder. It did not expressly install the Registered Trustees as a replacement executive. It did not hand administrative control to any faction.

Those are precisely the kinds of questions that should be placed before the Court for clarification where uncertainty now exists.

Our position is therefore neutral and straightforward: no side should claim a judicial victory that has not been pronounced; no public authority should be drawn into partisan enforcement; and no group should resort to self-help in the name of protecting the Constitution of the Union.

The Registered Trustees are entitled to rely on whatever powers they believe the Union Constitution gives them. The former executive is equally entitled to rely on whatever legal protection it believes flows from the subsisting order. But neither position should be enforced by unilateral action while the Court remains seized of the dispute.

The lawful course is to seek clarification, variation or consequential directions from the same Court.

Amichi is bigger than any President-General, Trustee, faction, Commissioner or political interest. What must be protected now is the peace of the community, the integrity of its institutions and respect for due process.

Let the Court clarify the law. Let every side exercise restraint. Let peace prevail in Amichi.

AMICHI CITIZENS FOR PEACE AND RULE OF LAW