The claimants also asked the court to declare that the judgment of the Owerri division is not applicable to them on the ground that they were not parties to it. NULGE Court Nigeria
, Alhaji Ibrahim Khaleel, and all the state executive councils of the union whose tenures were elongated from four to six years at its national delegates’ conference held in 2016 in Akure, Ondo State.
The Kaduna case was filed in the name of the Kaduna State branch of the union, Rayyanu Turunku, and five others against Adamu Sanni and six others, who represented the state NULGE Caretaker Committee. They urged the court, among other prayers, to give a perpetual injunction restraining the caretaker team from parading themselves as officers of the union, executing and/or carrying out any function in the name of the union.
The defendants, however, objected to the prayers on the ground that the Owerri judgment is relevant, subsisting and binding on them since they all belonged to NULGE and are officers elected into office in 2014 on the basis of NULGE’s 2005 Constitution for a four-year tenure and had served out their term, as settled by the Owerri judgment.
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