APC: Oshiomhole Survives As Court Strikes Out Suit To Sack Him From Office

THE plot by some elements in the Edo State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Edo State to oust Comrade Adams Oshiomhole as National Chairman of the party derailed in Abuja on Wednesday after a High Court  struck out the suit to that effect.

The action was instituted by one Steven Oshawo and others with the intention of removing Oshiomhole from office upon the claim that he had been suspended by his local chapter of the party.

Oshawo and others from Ward 10, Etsako West Local Government Area of Edo State, where Oshiomhole hails from, had gone to Court presided over by Justice S.O. Oriji asking it to stop Comrade Oshiomhole from parading himself as National Chairman of the APC upon his purported suspension from the local chapter.

Oshiomhole had in his defence, argued that the appellants do not have the powers to suspend him according to the constitution of the APC. Besides he claimed that all the plaintiffs in the suit were earlier suspended in their respective units in ward 10.

He, therefore, claimed that at the time they purported to have suspended the National Chairman, they had no such powers anymore since they were themselves on suspension.

Oshiomhole also noted before the court that Article 21 of the APC constitution automatically expels any party member who ran to court without exhausting the provisions of the APC constitution. He therefore described the suit as lacking merit and should be dismissed.

However, on the 20th of January, 2020, upon being served with all the processes by the defendant, the plaintiffs filed a motion seeking to withdraw the suit filed against Oshiomhole.

The move was, however, opposed by counsel to Oshiomhole, Ikhide Ehighelua through a counter affidavit that urged the court to dismiss the suit in its entirety.

Ehighelua stressed that “My Lord, this matter should be dismissed because discontinuance is not directed at any peace. The Plaintiffs have gone to file another matter with similar reliefs in the FCT High Court so the issue of discontinuance in this matter does not hold water because they knew already they have no case here, so the suit should be dismissed in its entirety my Lord and award damages to the Defendant”.

Counsel to Oshawo and others, Abang Peter, said the Plaintiffs were no longer interested in the suit against the National Chairman, adding that “upon deep reflection, the Claimants thought it wise to instruct that we discontinue the suit against the APC National Chairman”.

However, in his ruling, Justice S.O. Oriji, struck out the matter and awarded N100,000 cost against the Plaintiffs.

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