A Federal High Court in Abuja has ordered parties in the Labour Party (LP) chairmanship dispute not to take any further step in respect of the suit before the court.
Justice Nnamdi Dimgba ordered the parties to “refrain from taking any steps that would unsettle the outcome of the suit” before the court.
Members of the party including John Onyemere, Philip Uwazuruonye, and Dr Mike Omotosho had filed the suit asking the court to stop Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) from recognising Abdulkadir Abdulaziz as the chairman of the party.
The applicants are also asking INEC to reject “every illegal, unlawful and criminal submission of candidates for presidential, governorship, senatorial, House of Representatives and House of Assembly election from Abdulkadir Abdulaziz and his group pending the final determination of the suit.”
Counsel to the applicants, Kingdom Okere wants the court to make an order compelling the party to delete the names of Abdulaziz and Oluchi Opara from its website and to “recognise the Dr Mike Omotosho-led National Working Committee duly elected and sworn in at the Special National Convention of the party held on the 3rd of October 2017 duly monitored by INEC.”
The lawyer had also requested for an order of perpetual injunction restraining INEC from “recognising or having any official communication with Abdulaziz and Opara or in any manner conniving and conspiring to accept illegal nomination of any candidate for electoral offices, nominated and presented to it by the ousted Abdulaziz National Working Committee.”
The suit has been adjourned to September 25 for hearing.
Join Daily Trust WhatsApp Community For Quick Access To News and Happenings Around You.
