The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari , on Wednesday, declared support for the suspended Deputy National Secretary of the All Progressives Congress, Victor Giadom, as the party’s acting nation
al chairman.
The problem in the APC NWC came to a head on Tuesday last week when the Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja upheld the suspension of the party’s National Chairman, Adams Oshiomhole, by the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory. But the Ajimobi-led NWC on Tuesday said having been suspended from the NWC, Giadom was not qualified to convene the NEC meeting.But on Wednesday the Presidency said the President had thrown his weight behind Giadom as the APC acting chairman.
“In addition to the President, the Giadom meeting will, hopefully, be attended by our governors and the leaders of the National Assembly.”But the APC acting National Secretary, Waziri Bulama in a statement in Abuja, on Wednesday, said “Our leader, the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is renowned for insisting on compliance with our constitution and rule of law.
“That an order of interim injunction be and is hereby made restraining the 1st, 2nd 4th and 5th defendants, acting by themselves or through any of their officers, agents, or privies from recognizing or regarding the third defendant/respondent as the national chairman or acting national chairman or deputy national secretary of the first defendant/respondent or member of the national working committee of the first defendant pending the hearing and determination of the motion on notice.
“We believe that attending such a meeting will amount to embracing illegalities and turning a blind eye to the infractions on the constitution of our great party. “said, “We have a constitution which stipulates how our National Executive Committee meeting should be convened. Tomorrow is not far. We will wait to see how far they can go with their plan for the NEC meeting. We all want the NEC meeting but it has to be properly convened according to our constitution.
The court presided over by Justice N.I. Musa granted the four prayers sought by the plaintiff, Mr Letep Dabang, in his motion on notice. The APC, Giadom and Mustapha Salihu were listed as first, second and third defendants respectively.
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