Buba Galadima, chairman of the
“reformed” All Progressives Congress (R-APC), has asked a federal high court in
Abuja to annul the convention of the ruling party and declare offices of the
national working committee (NWC) executives “null and void”.
He also asked the court to allow
members of the R-APC preside over the affairs of the APC on interim basis.
Galadima said since the APC did
not conduct a valid convention, those parading themselves as national officials
were doing so illegally.
He asked the court to grant him
and members of his faction control of the party.
Among his requests in the
documents seen by TheCable are: “A DECLARATION that there being no valid
election at the National Convention of the All Progressives Congress (APC) on
the 23rd day of June 2018 at the Eagle Square, Abuja, thereby leaving a vacuum,
the reform-minded FACTION of APC known as the REFORMED ALL PROGRESSIVES
CONGRESS (R-APC) validly constituted the Plaintiffs and the other National
Officers and State Executives of APC to fill the vacuum and act in interim
capacities as officers of the APC.
“AN ORDER of perpetual injunction
restraining the 1st – 52nd Defendants from parading themselves or claiming to
be officers of the All Progressives Congress (APC) or performing any function
as officers of the Party in any capacity whatsoever as their elections and
swearing in as officers of APC are invalid, null and void.
“AN ORDER of perpetual injunction
restraining the 53rd Defendant from holding out the 1st – 52nd Defendants as
either National Officers, members of the National Working Committee , Zonal
Executives or State Executives of the All progressives Congress (APC).
“AN ORDER of perpetual injunction
restraining the 53rd Defendant from harassing, intimidating, suspending or
expelling any of or all the Plaintiffs from the All Progressives Congress; or
taking any steps whatsoever to harass, intimidate, suspend or expel or abridge
or terminate the Plaintiffs’ membership, rights and entitlements in the All
Progressives Congress.
“AN ORDER directing the 54th
Defendant to recognize the Plaintiffs who are members of the reform-minded
FACTION of the All Progressives Congress (APC) as the current interim National
Officers, members of the National Working Committee, Zonal Executives or State
Executives of the All progressives Congress (APC) and accord them all rights
and privileges appertaining to the respective offices pending the holding of
valid elections by the Party.”
On Wednesday, the R-APC chairman
wrote to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), seeking a
cancellation of the election of Adams Oshiomhole, national chairman of the APC.
He alleged that the election
which produced Oshiomhole was flawed.
But in a swift response, the
ruling party said INEC lacked the powers to cancel what it did not conduct.
Galadima and some aggrieved
members of the ruling party formed a breakaway faction a week ago.
On Monday, the group entered an
alliance with Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and 37 political parties to unseat
President Muhammadu Buhari in 2019.
The ruling party has dismissed
the threats of the group.
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