A Excessive Court docket of the Federal Capital Territory sitting in Maitama, on Friday, adjourned additional listening to on the management disaster rocking the Workers Multipurpose Cooperative Society of the Nigeria Nationwide Petroleum Firm (NNPC) Restricted till November 29.
Justice Charles Agbaza took the choice following an utility by counsel to the thirteenth defendant, who mentioned he was solely served the originating summons two days in the past and would want time to file a reply.
The applicant additionally knowledgeable the courtroom that there’s a pending matter on the problem on the Court docket of Enchantment and subsequently utilized for a keep of proceedings pending the willpower of that swimsuit.
He subsequently prayed the courtroom to first decide the appliance for a keep of execution earlier than addressing some other points.
Counsel for the defendants didn’t oppose the appliance, and Justice Agbaza adjourned the matter to November 29, 2024, to rule on each points.
Eze Onwuneme and three different aggrieved members of the cooperative society — Chamberlin Ajagba, Alhaji Ibrahim Yakubu, and Bello Mohammed Garba — introduced the case, marked FCTHC/ABJ/CV/2460/2024, earlier than the courtroom.
Listed as defendants within the swimsuit are Engr. Josiah Omole, Udo Iboro, Ituah Aikhena, Osondu Ibeji, Farouk Achimugu, Prince Etuwewe, Nura Bello, Michael Adejoh, Sambo Abdulaziz, and Vincent Orji.
Others embrace Saint Kamvene, Braimoh Sunday Joseph, Galadima Immanuel, Engr. Iliya Yusuf, Musa Garba Abubakar, and the NNPC Ltd. Workers Multipurpose Cooperative Society, Abuja.
The plaintiffs are looking for, amongst different reliefs, an order nullifying the purported appointment of the 2nd and third defendants (Iboro and Aikhena) as President and Basic Secretary of the group, in addition to the 4th and Fifteenth defendants (Ibeji and Abubakar) as members of the Administration Committee.
In addition they search an order of injunction restraining the first defendant (Omole) and his brokers from recognizing or giving impact to the 2nd to Fifteenth defendants as President, Basic Secretary, and members of the Administration Committee of the group.
The plaintiffs are additionally asking for an order of perpetual injunction restraining the 2nd-Fifteenth defendants and their brokers or servants from parading themselves as members of the Administration Committee of the cooperative society.
Consequently, the courtroom adjourned the matter to November 29.
