A Excessive Courtroom in Makurdi headed by Justice T A Kume yesterday nullified the seven -man caretaker committee of the Benue State All Progressives Congress (APC).
The event adopted a go well with initiated by the previous state chairman of the APC, Comrade Austin Agada, difficult the dissolution of the State Working Committee, (SWC) of the get together by the Nationwide Working Committee (NWC).
Justice T. A. Kume in his ruling held that the dissolution of the EXCO was not in accordance with the Structure of the get together, noting that the motion of the NWC equally amounted to gross violation of the candidates’ proper to honest listening to.
In accordance with him, “even within the Backyard of Eden, God demonstrated the significance of equity to Adam and Eve by giving them a chance to specific themselves once they sinned in opposition to God.”
He mentioned the NWC denied Agada a good listening to.
The court docket held that every one actions carried out by the caretaker committee appointed by the nationwide secretariat of APC to behave rather than the Austin Agada-led State Working Committee amounted to nullity.
The plaintiffs within the go well with embody Agada and eight others whereas the APC and Benjamin Omale had been first and second respondents respectively.
The sacked chairman of the Benue State APC Caretaker Committee, Benjamin Omale has expressed dissatisfaction with the Courtroom judgement, saying that the decision could be appealed.
In August this yr, the NWC of APC dissolved the SWC and inaugurated a caretaker committee headed by Benjamin Omale.
