Abia court reverses Emenike’s suspension from APC

Abia APGA commends guber candidate for consulting members

With a Stay of Execution order, an Abia State High Court sitting in Umuahia has reversed the suspension of the governorship candidate of the state All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief Ikechi Emenike.

The court, presided over by Justice O.S. Chijioke, had, on May 26, 2022, placed a restraining order on the governorship flag bearer, following a suit challenging his membership of APC over a purported suspension by his Nkwoegwu ward.

Emenike had filed an appeal challenging the restraining order, which was issued after his emergence as party flag bearer and also filed an application seeking for stay of execution.

The order granted by the court, yesterday, by Justice Chijioke of Umuahia High Court, was consequent upon the application, which, by implication, had affirmed the purported membership suspension.

Granting the restraining order was sequel to the judgment on Suit No HU/6/2022, filed by Chinedum Nnoke and two other aggrieved party members against Emenike, urging the court to disqualify him from holding any elective office on the APC platform.

The suit was, however, considered unnecessary in some quarters as another competent Abia High Court at Umunneochi, presided over by Justice Benson Anya, with concurrent jurisdiction, had delivered judgment on the same matter last year, specifically on November 4, 2021, ruling that Emenike remains a bonafide member of APC.
IN another development, Chairman of the Abia State Chapter of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), Rev. Augustine Ehiemere, has commended the party’s guber candidate, Prof. Gregory Ibe, for consulting party members on common matters, saying that the decision on his deputy governorship candidate should be his and that of party members.

He spoke, yesterday, at the state party’s office, Umuahia, while addressing the party’s 17 local councils in the state, and 184 wards executives, including youth and women leaders, who trooped to the party’s office on a solidarity visit and passed a vote of confidence in the party’s leadership, as well as Ibe, the guber candidate.

He, however, commended Ibe for toeing the line of consulting party members, the executives and the working committee, saying that party members wished Ibe’s predecessors had applied such requirements that would have given them a better sense of belonging in making party decisions.