From Romanus Ugwu, Abuja
The Benue State chapter of the All Progressives Congress has instituted a fresh litigation against the Abdullahi Umar Ganduje-led National Working Committee (NWC) of the party for contempt of court.
The NWC failed to obey a High Court order, stopping it from sacking the Benue State executives and inaugurating a Caretaker Committee.
Chairman of the state chapter, Augustine Agada, had personally served the court judgment on the national leadership at the party’s headquarters on Wednesday, but the NWC went ahead to inaugurate the Caretaker Committee.
Agada, alongside eight others, on Thursday, however, approached a Benue State High Court aimed at slamming contempt charges against the Ganduje-led NWC of the APC.
In a motion on notice no: MHC/1585/M/2024, Agada led Benue exco had prayed the court to compel Ganduje-led NWC to adhere to the decision not to remove them from office until the expiration of their four years tenure.
The dissolved Benue exco also prayed the court to issue a punitive measure against the Ganduje led NWC over the disobedience of the earlier decision of the court, insisting in an affidavit deposed to by his counsel M.T Aiyebo, that the Ganduje-led NWC was duly served the order of the court on Wednesday at about 4pm.
He added that the service of the order restraining the APC under Ganduje was also served at the office of the National Legal Adviser at 4.02pm on Wednesday at the party’s national secretariat.
Agada, in the affidavit, also expressed surprise that the Ganduje-led NWC held a meeting where he went ahead to dissolve his executive committee and appointed a caretaker committee against the earlier court order.
“That I saw on several Television stations that same evening about 8pm and several other News media that the Benue state Working Committee of the Respondent on record has been dissolved by the Respondent against whom the leave of this Honourable court is been sought,” Agada prayed the court.
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