Comrade Adams
Oshiomhole, the National Chairman of the All Progress Congress, APC, has
refused to confirm President Muhammadu Buhari’s position in his (Oshiomhole)
ordeals.
On Wednesday a FCT High Court in Jabi, Abuja, suspended Oshiomhole as the
National Chairman of the APC.
The court ordered
Oshiomhole to step down pending the determination of the substantive suit
seeking his removal as the APC chairman.
Justice Danlami
Senchi gave the ruling in an application of interlocutory injunction following
his suspension as a member of the APC from Etsako ward 10 in Edo State.
During a brief
telephone chat on Thursday, Simon Ebegbulem, the Media Aide to
the former Edo State Governor, was asked if President Buhari was solidly behind
his principal, and he said “No comment.”
Speaking further,
the APC Chairman’s aide described the Abuja High Court’s judgment as strange,
adding that only the National Working Committee, NWC, of the National Executive
Council, NEC, of the party, according to its constitution, has the power to
suspend Oshiomhole.
He added, “The next
action as I said yesterday is that our lawyers have filed for Stay of
Execution, and they have appealed that ruling, so the whole thing is before the
court now. Let’s see how it turns out.
“The issues of
whether the court has the power to sack the National Chairman of the party is
another issue. These are the issues. The whole thing is strange to us and
that’s why we’ve gone back to the court to interpret it because, according to
the APC constitution, the only organ that can suspend the National Chairman,
not even the ward, is the NWC of the NEC.
“That is the only
organ that can suspend the National Chairman. That is why we went back to the
court so as to seek proper interpretation.”
Asked to comment on
the jubilation in the camp of the Governor of Edo State, Godwin Obaseki, who,
yesterday, mocked his predecessor after the judgment, Ebigbulem said, “I will
not comment on anything that has to do with Obaseki.”
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