A three-man panel of the court of appeal has affirmed the
suspension of Adams Oshiomhole as national chairman of the All Progressives
Congress (APC).
In a judgment delivered by Mohammed Lamido, a judge, on
Tuesday, the three-man panel dismissed Oshiomhole’s appeal for lacking in
merit.
The panel’s decision followed the decision of an Abuja high
court in March 2020, which had ordered the suspension of Oshiomhole as national
chairman of the APC.n March 5, 2020, a high court sitting in the federal
capital territory (FCT) had given an order of interlocutory injunction
restraining Oshiomhole from referring to himself as the APC national chairman,
pending the determination of a suit filed by one Oluwale Afolabi.
Less than two weeks later, on March 16, a court of appeal
sitting in Abuja had restrained the APC from executing the judgement of the FCT
high court which ordered Oshiomhole’s suspension as national chairman of the
ruling party.
In its ruling at the time, Abubakar Yahaya, chairman of the
three-man panel of judges, ordered a stay of execution pending the hearing of
an application filed by Oshiomhole.
In his appeal, Oshiomhole, through his counsel, Wole
Olanipekun, had asked the court to set aside the suspension order.
The appeal court’s ruling is coming at a time the national
chairman is facing serious backlash over the decision by the APC national working
committee (NWC) to suspend Godwin Obaseki, incumbent governor of Edo from
contesting the party’s governorship primary election.
Obaseki had, on Tuesday, announced his decision to quit the
APC. His deputy, Philip Shuaibu, also left the party after his principal’s
announcement.
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