Counsel for the former All Progressives Congress (APC) National Chairman, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, have clarified the circumstances that led to his controversial ouster from office.
Oshiomhole, a former two-term Edo State governor, shortly after leading the party to victory at the 2019 general election, was in what has been described as a stab in the back, forced to exit office.
President Muhammadu Buhari was to step in, having prevailed on litigants to sheathe their swords, which culminated in the current Governor Mai Mala Buni-led caretaker arrangement. The tenure of the Buni-led interim APC leadership has continued to be extended ahead of the party’s national convention.
An Abuja High Court had in July 2020, dismissed a suit challenging Oshiomhole’s position over having been purportedly suspended by the party at the ward level.
The Abuja High Court sitting in Jabi, dismissed the substantive suit filed by Comrade Mustapha Saliu, Oshawo Steven and four others over the purported suspension of the former APC national chairman by his Ward 10, Iyamho, in Etsako West Local Government of Edo State.
The court in a ruling by Justice D. Z. Senchi, dismissed the said suit with No: FCT/HC/CV/837/2020, following the application filed by counsel for the plaintiffs/applicants on 1/7/2020, asking to discontinue the suit.
Following the suit filed by the plaintiffs, the High Court had asked Oshiomhole to step aside as the national chairman of the APC pending the determination of the substantive suit.
Consequently, the Court of Appeal upheld the decision of the lower court, and Oshiomhole stepped aside.
The plaintiffs were expected to return to the lower court to begin the hearing of the substantive suit; instead they filed an application seeking a withdrawal of the substantive suit.
Counsel for Oshiomhole, Ginika Ezeoke of D.D. Dodo & Co., had argued that the 1st and 2nd defendants were not opposed to the application for withdrawal, but that the court should dismiss the suit on the basis that “parties had filed pleadings and issues joined.”
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