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UPDATED: BREAKING: Kano Court Reinstates Oshiomhole As APC National Chairman
A Federal High Court sitting in Kano, on Thursday restated the suspended national chairman of the All Progressive Congress (APC), Comrade Adams Oshiomhole.
Oshiomhole’s reinstatement came barely 24 hours after he was earlier on Wednesday temporarily suspended from office by a ruling of the FCT High Court which granted an interlocutory injunction brought against him by some APC members.
But the Kano federal high court, in its judgment delivered by Justice Lewis Allagoa, ordered the police and Department of State Security (DSS) to provide security to Oshiomhole to resume his role as national chairman of the ruling party, APC.
Recalls that Oshiomhole had earlier urged the Court of Appeal in Abuja to reverse his suspension by a High Court of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) in Jabi, Abuja
Justice Danlami Senchi of the High Court of the FCT had, in an interlocutory ruling on Wednesday, ordered among others, that Oshiomhole should desist from holding himself out as the Chairman of the APC.
In a notice of appeal filed on March 4, 2020, Oshiomhole raised four grounds on which he challenged the ruling by Justice Senchi.
He argued that the judge erred in law and arrived at a wrong conclusion, which occasioned a miscarriage of justice when the court placed him on suspension at an interlocutory stage of a suit instituted against him by some aggrieved members of the party.
Oshiomhole also argued the High Court further erred in law when it decided that he, in the performance of his duties as APC National Chairman, would interface in the court action filed against him by the aggrieved members.
He argued that the issue of his performance of duties as APC National Chairman is a matter which arose from substantive issues for determination and claim and ought not to have been determined at the interlocutory stage of the main matter.
Oshiomhole claimed that the trial judge erred in law and arrived at a wrong conclusion which occasioned a miscarriage when after ordering the filing of pleadings and immediately set down motion for interlocutory injunction for hearing in the absence of pleadings.
He further faulted the suspension order against him on the grounds that the trial court determined the motion for interlocutory injunction without recourse to triable issues which ought to have been discerned from pleadings.
Respondents in the appeal are: APC National Vice Chairman, North East Comrade Mustapha Saliu; APC Edo State Chairman, Honourable Anselm Ojezua; Alhaji Sani Gomna, Mr Oshawo Stephen, Honourable Fani Wabulari and Evangelist Princewill Ejogharado.
Others are the Inspector General of Police and the State Security Service.
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