Benue APC Executives Initiate Legal Action Against Party’s National Working Committee

The crisis rocking the Benue State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has taken another dimension, as the dissolved state executive members of the party led by Augustine Agada has dragged the party’s National Working Committee led by its National Chairman, Abdullahi Ganduje, to court for disobedience of court order.

A Benue State High Court presided by Justice Theresa Igoche, had on Wednesday stopped the APC NWC from dissolving the Benue State chapter executive led by Agada, but late on Wednesday the Ganduje-led NWC went ahead to dissolve the said state Exco in disobedience of the court order.

Agada, alongside eight others, on Thursday, however, approached a Benue State High Court and slammed contempt charges against the Ganduje-led National Working Committee (NWC) of the APC.

In a motion on notice no: MHC/1585/M/2024, the Agada-led Benue Exco prayed the court to compel the NWC to adhere to the decision not to remove them from office until the expiration of their 4 years tenure.

The dissolved Benue executive also prayed the court to issue a punitive measure against the NWC over the disobedience of the earlier decision of the court.

Agada, in an affidavit deposed to by his counsel M.T Aiyebo, insisted that the Ganduje-led NWC was duly served the order of the court on Wednesday at about 4pm.

He added that the service of the order restraining the APC under Ganduje was also served at the office of the National Legal Adviser at 4.02pm on Wednesday at the party’s national secretariat.

In the affidavit, Agada expressed surprise that in the evening of Wednesday, 21st August, 2024, at 6pm, Ganduje-led NWC held a meeting where he went ahead to dissolve his executive committee and appointed a caretaker committee against the earlier court order.