JUST IN: Court Sacks APC Exco In Southern Nigeria, Nullify Ward, State Congresses

JUST IN: Court Sacks APC Exco In Southern Nigeria, Nullify Ward, State Congresses

The Bayelsa State High Court in Yenagoa has sacked the state executives of the All Progressive Congress (APC) by nullifying the ward, local government, and state congresses held between September 3rd and 4th, 2021 and October 16th, 2021.

On Friday, Justice Timipre.J Corcordia of the State High Court upheld the plaintiff’s Eight Prayers regarding exclusion, anomalies, and disobedience to court order.

The suit, numbered YHC/107/2021, was filed by some disgruntled members of the party in the state, Ompadec Victor, Esuenifen Obi, and Seimiegha Ebibofe Agbozu, with the prayers seeking an Interim injunction to stop the conduct of the state’s ward congress.

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The same claims were made in the amended summons, with Alex Izibenikiebo Blankson as plaintiff and State Chairman of APC, Barr. Denis’s Otittio and three others as defendants.

The Interim Injunction was granted by Justice I.A Uzaka, but the party continued with the conduct of the Congress at the ward, local government, and state lever levels, which produced Barr. Denis’s Otiotio led State Executives and other executives at the ward and local government levels.

In the case before the Court, the plaintiff, through their Counsel, Barr. Fawei, asked the Court whether, having regard to the filing, service, and knowledge of the defendants of the pendency of the motion on Notice for Interlocutory Injunction in the suit No. YHC/107/2021, seeking to restrain the defendant in Bayelsa State for the purpose of electing its party leaders/officers, the defendant was duty bound to refrain from any action whatsoever

“And that whether the conduct of the congresses by the defendant is invalid,null,voir and laible to be set aside by the hounourable court.”

The Plaintiff, on the other hand, sought a declaration that, having regard to the order of the honourable Court made on the 30th day of July,2021 in the suit No: YHC/107/2021, restraining the defendants from conducting wards, local Government and State congresses for the purpose of electing its party leaders in Bayelsa state, the defendants were in disobedience of the said court order when it conducted its congresses during the order’s subsistence.

They also sought a sixth order nullifying the defendants’ ward, local government, and state congresses and elections held in Bayelsa State on the 3rd and 4th of September, 2021, in defiance of the restraining order issued by the court on the 30th day of July, 2022, and during the pendency of the Motion for Interlocutory Injunction as well as the pendency of the Appeal No: CA/PH/246/2021.

After hearing from the plaintiff and defendant counsels, Justice Timipre.J Corcordia of the State High Court upheld the plaintiff’s Eight Prayers.

Barr. Fawei, the plaintiff’s counsel, commented on the ruling, saying: “It simply means that the APC in Bayelsa from the beginning have no leadership.”

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