A high court in Rivers
state has restrained Victor Giadom, national secretary of the All Progressives
Congress (APC), from parading himself as the acting national chairman of the
party.
The ruling is coming a
day after a court of coordinate jurisdiction reaffirmed him as acting national
chairman of the party.
The ruling of a high
court in the federal capital territory (FCT) on Thursday was sequel to an ex
parte motion filed by Mustapha Salihu, national vice-chairman north-east.
S. U Bature, the judge,
held that his ruling would subsist pending the time the national executive
committee (NEC) convenes and takes a decision or determination of the suit.
However, Salihu whose
name is on the court order as an applicant, expressed shock over the ruling,
saying he has moved on.
The Rivers high court
based its ruling on the fact that Giadom resigned his position to contest as
running mate to Tonye Cole, a governorship aspirant in the 2019 general
election.
Unfortunately, the APC
crisis prevented the party from fielding candidates in the elections.
On Wednesday, Hilliard
Eta, APC vice-chairman south-south, told reporters that Gaidom could not be
chairman of the party because he has since ceased to be a member of the NWC.
Eta said party
stakeholders in the south-south have not represented him to be a part of the
NWC.
“Chief Victor Gaidom has
long ceased to be a member of the NWC. He has voluntarily resigned his
membership to be able to contest as deputy governorship candidate of our
party,” he had said.
“And, at no time, I
supretend over the south-south, and at no time did I present Giadom again to
come to the NWC. You can check all the records and you will see that this is
the fact.”
TheCable reports that on
Friday that the management of the party has asked Gaidom to return officials
cars and laptops in his possession.
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