Udeze issued the threat at a press conference in Abuja on Friday, where the Action Alliance leadership addressed what it described as the state of the party, the nation, and the politics of the 2027 general elections.
Udeze said the Abuja Judicial Division of the Court of Appeal has, on multiple occasions since January 2024, ruled in favour of his leadership in a protracted internal dispute with a rival faction led by Adekunle Rufai Omoaje.
He listed five separate rulings, including a January 2024 judgment dismissing an appeal by the Omoaje camp, a September 2024 judgment affirming him as National Chairman, a November 2024 ruling in a related suit, an April 2026 ruling from the Makurdi Judicial Division, and a July 2026 ruling dismissing an application by the Omoaje faction seeking to change the party’s legal representation in a separate appeal.
“The import of these concurrent judgments is clear and unambiguous: the leadership of Chief Barr. Kenneth Udeze is the only valid, subsisting, and legally recognised leadership of Action Alliance,” Udeze said, adding that “any other claim is without legal effect.”
He said his legal team wrote to INEC in May and July 2026, attaching certified copies of the judgments and demanding that the Commission reinstate his leadership’s details on its website, but that INEC has neither responded nor acted more than two months later.
Citing Section 287(2) of the 1999 Constitution, which mandates that Court of Appeal decisions be enforced by all authorities, Udeze argued that INEC was legally bound to comply with the rulings.
“We ask: how does a Professor of Law and Senior Advocate of Nigeria who heads INEC justify disobedience of valid, subsisting and binding judgments and ruling of the Court of Appeal,” he said, adding that Action Alliance would “without further delay” commence contempt proceedings against Amupitan over the Commission’s non-compliance.
He also called on the INEC chairman to “publicly explain to Nigerians” the Commission’s position and demanded the immediate restoration of his leadership’s recognition on INEC’s platforms.
The dispute over Action Alliance’s leadership has run through Nigerian courts for more than two years.
The Court of Appeal’s Abuja Division has repeatedly ruled in Udeze’s favour in proceedings involving the Omoaje faction, including the July 2026 ruling he cited, in which the appellate court described an application by the Omoaje camp as an abuse of court process.
The rival faction, however, disputes Udeze’s account of the underlying leadership dispute. Omoaje has previously said his faction’s National Think Tank committee, which he describes as the party’s highest decision-making organ, suspended and later expelled Udeze – a position he said courts have upheld in cases Udeze himself brought.
Omoaje has also called for an investigation into Udeze over allegations of impersonation relating to party membership records presented before the courts.
INEC, for its part, has previously stated it could not list Omoaje as chairman while the Court of Appeal judgment recognising Udeze remained subsisting, though Action Alliance has separately accused the Commission of inconsistency in how it has treated the matter.
Udeze confirmed on Friday that Action Alliance has concluded its primary elections for the 2027 general elections across presidential, governorship, senatorial, House of Representatives, and state assembly positions, and said the requisite statutory notices were issued to INEC ahead of the exercise.
He assured candidates who emerged from the primaries that the party would work to safeguard their candidacies.
Speaking on broader national issues, he commended the Federal Government, the Oyo State Government, and security agencies for the rescue of school children and teachers previously held in captivity in Oyo State, while calling for the release of others still held elsewhere in the country.
He listed economic hardship, unemployment, the state of public healthcare and education, and conflicting court rulings among the challenges he said were confronting Nigeria.
