Court reserves judgment in Rivers APC leadership dispute
A Rivers Teach High Court in Port Harcourt has reserved judgment on a swimsuit filed by elected whisper, native authorities and ward executives of the All Progressives Congress, APC, below the management of Emeka Beke.
The swimsuit is in opposition to the party’s Nationwide Executive and participants of the Seven-Man Caretaker Committee in Rivers Teach, led by Tony Okocha.
Utterly different defendants within the swimsuit, filed by Sam Sam Etetegwung on behalf of himself and all elected executives of the APC, consist of the Inspector Similar old of Police, the Nigerian Police, and the Just Nationwide Electoral Commission, INEC.
Etetegwung, Banarth Ezemoye, and Ezekiel Ubom, on behalf of the elected executives of the APC, are now no longer easy the dismissal of the elected executives below Beke’s management and the appointment of the caretaker committee led by Okocha by the Nationwide Working Committee of the APC.
DAILY POST reports that at some stage within the resumed session on Thursday, counsels representing the occasions argued and adopted their final written addresses.
The presiding mediate, Justice Sika Aprioku, after listening to their arguments, reserved judgment, which is willing to be communicated to the occasions within Forty eight hours.
Justice Aprioku furthermore ruled on an application for joinder by some participants of the APC trusty to the Vice Chairman of the APC, South-South, Victor Gideon.
The applying became once brushed off for lacking advantage, and the mediate awarded N300,000 (300 thousand naira) in desire of the claimants.
