Plaintiff in the action contends that the former National Chairman of the APC, Adams Oshiomhole, was suspended as a member of the party as such lost the power to act in that capacity as of the time he “floated” the committee to screen the party’s governorship aspirants in Edo State and announced the June 22, 2020 primaries that produced Ize-Iyamu as the candidate
The Federal High Court in Abuja presided by Justice Taiwo on
August 18, 2020 granted a motion for service through substituted means in the
suit seeking an order disqualifying Osagie Ize-Iyamu as the governorship
candidate of the All Progressives Congress in the forthcoming September 19,
2020 governorship election in Edo State.
Justice Taiwo directed that a former National Chairman of
the APC, Adams Oshiomhole, a former acting National Chairman of the party,
Victor Giadom, Hilliard Eta, and Ize-Iyamu, be served the suit through the
pasting of the court documents at the entrance gate of the party’s national
secretariat in Abuja.
The court action was instituted by Charles Ude, who is a
member of the APC.
While Oshimhole is the 2nd defendant in the suit, the rest
of Giadom, Eta and Ize-Iyamu are the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 6th respectively.
The APC, and the Independent National Electoral Commission,
joined as the 1st and the 5th defendants, had been previously served by the
plaintiff.
Justice Taiwo, after ordering that the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and
5th defendants be served through substituted means, then adjourned till
September 1.
The plaintiff, Ude, is in his suit, seeking the
disqualification Ize-Iyamu’s nomination as the APC’s candidate in the
forthcoming September 10, 2020 governorship election in Edo State on the grounds
that June 22, 2020, primary election which produced him as candidate was not
recognized by the then court-recognized acting National Chairman of the party,
Victor Giadom.
Ude contended that the former National Chairman of the APC,
Adams Oshiomhole, was suspended as a member of the party as such lost the power
to act in that capacity as of the time he “floated” the committee to screen the
party’s governorship aspirants in Edo State and announced the June 22, 2020
primaries that produced Ize-Iyamu as the candidate.
He also argued that Giadom who was appointed the then Acting
National Chairman of the party via a court order had written the Independent
National Electoral Commission informing the commission of the party’s decision
to postpone the Edo State governorship primary election which the
Oshiomhole-led National Working Committee had scheduled for June 22, 2020.
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