A Makurdi Excessive Courtroom has ordered the reinstatement of Austin Agada and different elected executives of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Benue chapter, whose tenures had been terminated by the social gathering’s nationwide working committee.
The presiding decide, Justice Tertsegha Kume, gave the order on Thursday in his verdict in a swimsuit filed by Agada and eight others towards APC.
Mr Agada and the eight others challenged the abrupt termination of their tenure in workplace as Benue executives of the social gathering.
They dragged the social gathering to court docket to find out whether or not it was proper to terminate their tenures halfway with out giving them a good listening to.
The plaintiff’s counsel, M. T. Alyebo, informed the court docket that the social gathering’s NWC was improper to ignore the provisions of Articles 12(11), 17(i), and 21.1 of the Structure of the APC 2022 (as amended).
Mr Alyebo argued that the NWC determination was additionally in contravention of Part 223(2) of the Structure of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999 (As Amended) by not giving them a good listening to earlier than unlawfully terminating their tenures.
He due to this fact urged the court docket to make an order reinstating his shoppers till the expiration of their tenures on February 2, 2026.
Nevertheless, counsel for APC, Matthew Burkaa, urged the court docket to dismiss the swimsuit, arguing that the court docket had no jurisdiction over the matter because it was an inner affairs of the social gathering.
The presiding decide, nonetheless, dismissed the argument of the respondents’ counsel and granted the reliefs sought by the candidates.
He declared that the tenure of workplace of Agada and different elected executives of the APC in Benue continues to be legitimate and subsisting until the completion of 4 years.NAN