APC Spokesman Issa-Onilu, Two Others Face Contempt Over Edo Crisis

The Court of Appeal, sitting in Benin, has given leave for the sustenance of contempt proceedings against some chieftains of the All Progressives Congress, APC.

The contempt proceedings are upon their depiction of Col. David Imuse (rtd), as Chairman of the Edo State Chapter of the party against the restraining order issued by an Edo State High Court.

Those charged are the National Publicity Secretary of the APC, Mallam Lanre Issa-Onilu, the spokesman of the Edo State chapter, Chris Azebamwam and Col. Dave Imuse, rtd.

The court held that the proceedings in the High Court, including the contempt of court proceeding against Imuse and two others, should continue.

Recall that Col. Imuse had started referring to himself as the state chairman of the APC with the backing of some associates of the party’s national chairman, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole.

After the court granted an order restraining him, Col. Imuse was paraded as the state chairman of the APC by Comrade Adams Oshiomhole during a courtesy call on President Muhammadu Buhari, by state chairmen of the APC. He was also so addressed by the National Publicity Secretary of the APC, Mallam Lanre Issa-Onilu and the suspended Edo State Publicity Secretary of the party, Chris Azebamwam in subsequent communications.

With the disregard for court orders, Anselm Ojezua, approached the court for a contempt charge against Col. Imuse, Azebamwan and Issa-Onilu before Hon. Justice V. O. A. Oviawe

The Court of Appeal on Friday, March 13, 2020, has now ruled that the contempt proceedings continue, while upholding the restraining order against Col. Imuse and his fellow Contemnors.

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