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Appeal court cautions Rivers APC factions

By Kelvin Ebiri, Port Harcourt
16 October 2018   |   3:29 am
An appellate court sitting in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, has warned the two factions of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state not to take further steps to frustrate court process. The Ojukaye Flag-Amachree faction of the party had approached the court to appeal the judgment of the state’s high court, presided over by…

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An appellate court sitting in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, has warned the two factions of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state not to take further steps to frustrate court process.

The Ojukaye Flag-Amachree faction of the party had approached the court to appeal the judgment of the state’s high court, presided over by Justice Chiwendu Nwogu, that nullified all state congresses and primaries held last month for nomination of the governorship and legislative candidates of the party.

Factional executives of Flag-Amachree and Peter Odike are in legal tussle over the conduct of APC congresses in May.

The court’s three-man panel presided over by Justice Isaiah Akeju, while addressing the parties in suit no: CAP/198/2018 yesterday, told counsel to the warring factions not to take further steps to undermine the case pending before the court until the Supreme Court rules on the appeal before it.

Justice Akeju granted the application of Kaananwi Luke, counsel to the 23 APC members who dragged the party to Port Harcourt high court to challenge their exclusion from the May 2018 ward congresses, by adjourning the matter indefinitely pending the determination of their appeal at the apex court.

Luke had told the court that the appeal of his clients in suit no: SC/764/2018, before the Supreme Court had been fixed for hearing yesterday at the same time the appellate court was sitting.

“We have served the applicants the notice. In the circumstance, we pray the court to adjourn sine die or to a known date pending the outcome of the proceedings at the Supreme Court, so as not to render the decision of this honourable court void,” he said.

imilarly, counsel to the Flag-Amachree faction, Chimenem Jerome, had implored the court to grant an order for the parties to maintain status quo ante October 10 when the lower court nullified the congresses that led to the emergence of his clients’ state executive.

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