A Delta State High Court sitting in the Kwale Judicial Division has restrained the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Mr. Adams Oshiomhole, the Independent National Electoral Commission and two others from recognising or dealing with any other faction except the Chief Cyril Ogodo-led State Working Committee of the party in the state.
The state chapter of the APC has been enmeshed in internal wranglings, which resulted in factional leadership; but the immediate past National Working Committee, led by its former National Chairman, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, had sworn in the Ogodo-led leadership as the authentic and duly elected SWC of the APC in Delta State.
The presiding judge, Justice V.I Ofesi, after hearing the application in suit No. HCK/56/2018 on Monday, ruled that Ogodo-led executive remained the duly elected leadership of the party in the state, pending the determination of the case brought before the court.
The judge, while granting the applicants’ prayers, however, restrained the defendants which include the All Progressives Congress, the National Chairman of APC, Comrade Adams Oshiomole; National Secretary, Hon. Mai Mala Buni; and the Independent National Electoral Commission from recognising any other faction in the state.
Justice Ofesi, in his ruling, granted an interim injunction restraining the party or its agents from swearing in any other Ward or Local Government Areas Executive of the APC in the state, other than the Chief Cyril Ogodo-led leadership which has been sworn in and has since assumed office before the emergence of the NWC.
