By Harry Awurumibe, Editor, Abuja Bureau
All is not definitely well with the two major political parties in Nigeria as a Delta State High Court sitting in Asaba, has restrained the Yobe State Governor Mai Mala Buni along with other members from acting or parading themselves as the All Progressives Congress (APC) Caretaker/ Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee (CECPC) members until the determination of a substantive suit before the court.
Trial judge, Justice Onome Umukoro also stopped the scheduled APC local government congress in Delta State slated for Saturday, September 4, 2021.
APC State Deputy Chairman, Olorogun Elvis Ayomanor and other officials of the Delta APC had approached the court, challenging the outcome of the Ward Congress in the state.
Multiple media sources report that in an ex-parte application, the applicants, through their lead counsel, Mr Daubry Richard, prayed the court to grant the seven- point reliefs sought, noting that going ahead with the September 4, Local Government Congress in Delta State, would cause more damage to his clients.
Principal among the reliefs sought by the applicants were; “An order of interim injunction of this court restraining the 2nd to 14th defendants/respondents from further acting or parading themselves as the members of the CECPC of the 1st defendant pending the hearing and determination of the motion on notice already filed and served in the suit.
”Alternatively, an order of interim injunction of this court restraining the 2nd – 14th defendants/respondents from conducting the LG and State Congresses slated for September 4, 2021, or any other date, and other congresses of the 1st defendant in Delta State, pending the hearing and determination of the Motion on Notice already filed and served.
”An order of interim injunction of this court restraining the 2nd to 14th defendants/respondents from further acting or parading themselves as the members of the CECPC of the 1st defendant pending the hearing and determination of the motion on notice already filed and served in the suit.”
Recall that the main opposition People’s Democratic Party (PDP) is also enmeshed in internal crisis which has led to plethora of court injunctions against the incumbent National Chairman of PDP, Uche Secondus.
As at the time of this report, it is not clear if Secondus whom a Cross River state High Court barred not to attend his party’s National Executive Council (NEC) meeting held last Saturday in Abuja is still the Chairman of PDP.
