Mr. Victom Giadom, the erstwhile deputy national secretary who called today’s National Executive Committee meeting of the All Progressives Congress (APC), was on June 22 restrained from participating in the activities of the party by the Federal High Court sitting in Port Harcourt.
Justice C. Nwogu granted the relief sought by Okechukwu Chidor Ogbonna and Mac-Lord Peters in a case in which the APC, its Rivers caretaker chairman Igo Aguma, Gaidom (the third respondent) and Golden Chioma as defendants.
The judge granted the following reliefs:
“An order of interim injunction be and is hereby made restraining the 3rd Defendant/Respondent from participating in any activity of the 1st Defendant in whatever capacity of form or manner, 3rd Defendant/Repondent having been suspended by the 1st Defendant’s State Executive Committee in Rivers State, pending the hearing and determination of the Motion of Notice already filed before this Court.
“An Order of interim injunction be and is hereby made restraining the 3rd Defendant/Respondent from parading himself as an officer or member of the 1st Defendant or exercising any right or priviledge accruable to members of the 1st Defendant or howsoever, 3rd Defendants’s State Executive Committee in River State, pending the hearing and determination of the Motion on Notice already filed before this Court.
“I hereby Order that the Originating Process already filed in this suit and every subsequent processes to be served including the Motion on Notice be served on the 1st, 2nd and 4th Defendants/Respondents by substituted means to wit: by posting same at the 1st Defendant/Respondent Secretariat at No. 63 Aba Road, Port Harcourt, Rivers State, on the Notice board, thereat.
“I hereby Order that the Originating Processes already filed and every subsequent processes to be served including the Motion on Notice be served on the 3rd Defendant/Respondent by substituted means to wit: by pasting same at the entrance door of the 3rd Defendant’s/Respondent’s residence at No. 30 Nzimiro Street, Amadi Flat, Port Harcourt, Rivers State.
“This matter is adjourned to the 9th of July 2020 (09/7/2020) for the Motion on Notice for interlocutory injunction filed by the Claimants/Applicants.”
This order has not been discharged.
Observers were asking last night whether President Buhari, who affirmed his belief in the rule of law, was not informed about this order before declaring his intention to attend this NEC meeting.
By attending the meeting, the President will be lending his weight behind an illegality in trying to resolve the issues that are in contention in his party.
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