Aggrieved APC members ask court to stop national convention

Some aggrieved members of the All Progressive Congress (APC), have dragged the Mai Mala Buni-led Caretaker and Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee through a Federal High Court in Abuja.

The APC, Chairman of APC Caretaker/Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) were listed as 1-3 defendants in the Court processes obtained by journalists in Abuja on Friday.

The plaintiffs in suit number FHC/ABJ/CS/3/2022, filed through their lawyer, Olusola Ojo, prayed the Court for an order to stop the convention on the grounds that state congresses had yet to be completed in all the 36 states of the federation.

They raised five questions for the Court to determine and also sought eight declarative reliefs.

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Some of the reliefs included an order of the Court restraining the 1st and 2nd defendants from organising and conducting the national convention of the 1st defendant unless state congresses of the 1st defendant were first concluded in all the 36 states of the federation and the Federal Capital Territory.

They also prayed for an order of the Court directing the 1st and 2nd defendants to first conduct state congresses of the 1st defendant in Anambra state and Zamfara state before the national convention of the 1st defendant can be scheduled and conducted.

Others were: “An order of this Honourable Court restraining the 3rd defendant from giving approval effect to any action of the 1st and 2nd defendant to organise and conduct national convention of the 1st defendant unless state congresses of the 1st defendant are first conducted/concluded in ALL the 36 states of the federation and the Federal Capital Territory.”

The plaintiffs in the suit dated January 4, 2022, are: Suleiman Dimas Usman, Muhammed Shehu, Samaila Isahaka, Idris Isah, and Audu Emmanuel.

No date has been fixed for the hearing of the case.