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KOGI: Court orders APC to suspend plans for indirect primaries
The Federal High Court in Abuja has ordered the All Progressives Congress (APC) to suspend plans towards adopting an indirect primary for the nomination of its candidate for the November 16, 2019 governorship election in Kogi State.
Ruling on an ex parte application by four members of the factional Executive Committee of the party in the state, the judge, Justice Taiwo Taiwo, ordered parties to the suit “to maintain the status quo” until when the main suit touching on the propriety of adopting indirect mode of the primary would be resolved by the court.
Justice Taiwo while ruling on Friday ordered an accelerated hearing in the suit and adjourned till July 19 to enable him dispense with the suit ahead of the party’s primary scheduled to hold on August 29.
He also ordered the plaintiffs to serve the papers file in the suit on the defendant, who must also file all necessary responses before the next hearing date.
The plaintiffs in the suit, Destiny Aromeh, Isah Abubakar, Noah Aku, and Joy Onu, are said to be of the Haddy Ametuo-led executive committee of the party in the state while the APC is the sole respondent.
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Their lawyer, Mr. Oluwole Aladedoye, while moving his clients’ ex parte application, asked the court to issue the “order of interim injunction restraining the defendant (APC)” from adopting “the indirect mode of primary for the nomination of its governorship candidate in the forthcoming 2019 governorship election in Kogi State”.
He argued that there was an urgent need for the restraining order to be issued to pave the way for direct primary which would allow all card-carrying members of the party to vote.
He said if the National Working Committee of the party was not restrained, the party would go ahead to adopt a indirect primary and his clients, not being the faction recognised by the national leadership of the party, would be “shut out” and not allowed to vote as delegates at the primary.
Aladedoye submitted that the National Working Committee of the party adopted the indirect primary for Kogi State election in disregard to a pending suit on the disputed leadership of the party in the state.
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