A High Court of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) in Maitama, Abuja has extended an earlier order directing Victor Giadom to act as the National Chairman
of the All Progressives Congress for the next two weeks following the suspension of the party’s National Chairman, Adams Oshiomhole from office.
A copy of the order, made in a motion marked: FCT/HC/M/6447/2020, reads: “Upon listening to Wole Afolabi, Esq. counsel to the plaintiff /applicant praying this honourable court to extend the lifespan of the order of this court made on the 16th of march 2020 as per a motion ex-parte, with motion No: FCT/HC/CV/6447/2020 , praying this Honourable Court for the following orders:
“Consequently and in line with Rule No.5 of the COVID 19 Practice Directions of the FCT High Court, 2020, the order of this court made on the 16th day of March, 2020 is hereby extended for a period of two weeks.Justice Bature had, in a ruling on March 16, 2020, in a suit filed by a chieftain of the APC, Comrade Mustapha Salihu, ordered that Giadom assume the position of the party’s Acting National Chairman.
But on June 16, 2020 a lawyer to the plaintiff in the suit by Salihu, Wole Afolabi, returned to Justice Bature’s court for an extension of the earlier orders, a request the judge granted.The court also on June 16, 2020 ordered that Salihu steps in as the APC’s Acting National Secretary
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