The former suspended Chairman of the All Progressives
Congress, APC Mr Adams Oshiomhole, on Tuesday, withdrew his application for
stay of execution of the June 16, 2020 judgment of the Abuja Division of the Court
of Appeal which affirmed his suspension as the National Chairman of the APC.
This was in keeping with his decision to accept in good
faith, the dissolution of the National Working Committee and the subsequent
appointment of a caretaker committee by the National Executive Committee of the
party on June 25.
Consequently, the
three-man panel of the Court of Appeal led by Justice Eunice Onyemenam
unanimously dismissed in a short ruling on Tuesday.
African Parliamentary News recalls that Oshiomhole’s Ward 10 in Etsako West Local
Government Area of Edo State had in November 2019 suspended him as a member of
the party for anti-party activities, a decision which the High Court of the
Federal Capital Territory in Abuja relied on to order his suspension as the
National Chairman of the party on March 4, 2020.
Oshiomhole had proceeded to the Court of Appeal to challenge
the decision of the FCT High Court.
But the Court of Appeal affirmed the FCT High Court’s ruling
in a unanimous judgment of its three-man panel led by Justice Eunice Onyemanam,
on June 16, 2020.
Not satisfied with the Court of Appeal’s judgment,
Oshiomhole then sought a review of the decision by the Supreme Court and filed
a motion for stay of execution of the judgment before the Court of Appeal.
However, while his application was pending at the Court of
Appeal, the NEC of the party on June 25 dissolved the Oshiomhole-led NWC of the
party and constituted a Caretaker Committee to organize an extra-ordinary
National Convention of the Party to elect replacement.
Having accepted the dissolution of the NWC by NEC,
Oshiomhole, through his lawyer, Ahmed Raji (SAN), approached the Court of
Appeal in Abuja on Tuesday and sought the withdrawal of the pending processes
seeking an order for stay of execution of the Court of Appeal’s judgment.
Justice Mohammed Lamido, who delivered the unanimous ruling
of the Court of Appeal, went on to dismiss the application.
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