Breaking: Omo-Agege’s Delta APC Group Wins As Court Stops Case Against Buni

The Federal High Court, Port-Harcourt Division on Thursday, January 21, 2022, struck out a court action directed to deligitimise the recent All Progressives Congress, APC congresses upon the claims of the alleged illegitimacy of the Mai Mala Buni led Caretaker Extra-Ordinary Convention Planning Committee.

The court action inspired by elements of the Olorogun Festus Keyamo led Council of Elders was on Thursday being hailed as another victory for the Senator Ovie Omo-Agege led mainstream of the party in Delta State.

The victory for the Omo-Agege tendency was the third in a stretch of court cases raised by the rival Keyamo led tendency following the boycott of the congresses by the latter group.

 GreenWhiteGreen GWG reports that some prominent chieftains of the party including Chief Great Ogboru, the APC’s 2019 governorship candidate who was also a former ally of Omo-Agege’s had clubbed together to challenge his leadership of the APC in Delta State.

The group which also included prominent party chiefs like Dr. Cairo Ojougboh, Engr. Victor Ochei, Dr. Mrs. Mariam Ali, Dr. Alex Ideh among others had formed the Delta APC Leaders’ Council to challenge the ascendancy of Omo-Agege.

The court action filed by elements supposedly sympathetic to the DLC was meant to upturn the outcome of the congresses which they faulted as having been wrongly conducted by the national leadership that was deficient in legality. The court action received considerable challenge given the cloud that arose over the legality of the Mai Mala Buni led national executive of the APC upon the Supreme Court judgment on the Ondo State governorship dispute.

The court case filed by Odjebobo Desire Onayefeme and others against the APC and five others had specifically challenged the competence of Mala Buni to conduct the congresses.

The presiding Judge, however, struck-out the name of National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, the National Working Committee of the APC as well as the National Secretary, Caretaker Extra-Ordinary Convention Planning Committee, sued as 2nd, 3rd and 4th Defendants for being non-juristic persons.

The Court held that the action is non-justiciable and incurably incompetent on the ground that the substratum of the matter borders on the internal affairs of the All Progressives Congress.

Celebrating the judgment on Friday night, a source in the Omo-Agege group said:

“The ruling of today has put finality on the issues surrounding the legality of the Mai Mala Buni-led Caretaker Extra-Ordinary Convention Planning Committee, which was the chief reason why a group known as APC Council of Elders issued a public notice on July 31, 2021 calling on members of the Party to boycott the Ward, LGA and State Congresses in Delta State.

“It is time, however, to come together and build our party, the APC, for the good of Deltans,” the APC chief said.

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