A federal capital
territory (FCT) high court has suspended Adams Oshiomhole as national chairman
of the All Progressives Congress (APC).
Danlami Senchi, the
judge, gave the order on Wednesday following an application of interlocutory
injunction filed by one Oluwale Afolabi seeking the removal of Oshiomhole as
APC national chairman.
”Oshiomhole will
remain suspended pending the determination of the suit”, the judge held.
Senchi also said it
was wrong of the APC to have kept Oshiomhole as chairman after he was suspended
by his state chapter of the party.
Last November, the
Edo chapter of the APC suspended Oshiomhole, who has been at daggers drawn with
Godwin Obaseki, governor of the state.
The judge said
Oshiomhole should not be granted access to the national secretariat of the
party in Abuja.
In his application,
Afolabi argued that Oshiomhole did not challenged the decision of the party to
suspend him.
The applicant also
said Oshiomhole should not enjoy the benefits of a member of the party since he
has been suspended.
In January, Mustapha
Salihu, APC national vice national north-east, said Oshiomhole should not be
regarded as APC national chairman since he was suspended by his state chapter
of the party.
Salihu said this
while speaking with journalists at the end of the national working committee
meeting of the party.
“I am here just to
give you a brief of what transpired just now; the illegality that just
transpired now. This has been prevalent in this party since Adams Oshiomhole
took over,” he said.
“We also want to
follow up with the suspension of the national chairman, to know the status,
whether or not, as we speak, he is fit to be a national chairman or whether
that court order is still subsisting which before the end of today, I will let
you know. I will find out if there is any court order that vacates it.
“If there is no
court that vacates it, I will produce the subsisting court order for you for
publication and will write to INEC, the DSS, he should not be recognised as the
national chairman.”
There have been
calls for Oshiomhole’s removal as APC national chairman. The Progressive
Governors Forum had said the party could no longer win elections with him at the
helm.
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