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From TONY JOHN, Port Harcourt
Rivers State executives of the All Progressives Congress (APC), on Friday, brought a motion ex parte before a Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja, High Court seeking to stop the inauguration of a Caretaker Committee (CTC) for the party in the state.
Claimant/applicant in the suit is Peter Ohochukwu, who is also representing the members of State Executive Committee of APC elected on October 16, 202.
The defendants/respondents are: His Excellency, Abdullahi Ganduje ( National Chairman, APC; Senator Surajudeen Ajibola Basiru (National Secretary), Chief Tony Okocha, Eric Nwibani, the Nigeria Police Force, Inspector General of Police and Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).
The motion ex parte is seeking “an order of interim injunction restraining the defendants/respondents by themselves, their men and officers, agents, privies and others, acting for or with them or on their behalf from taking any step whatsoever that is capable of affecting, destroying or distorting the res in this matter (which is the performance of the functions and duties of the claimant/applicant as an elected official of the State Executive Committee of the All Progressives Congress, Rivers State chapter), pending the hearing and determination of the motion on notice.
Another prayer is “An interim order compelling parties in this suit to maintain status quo, pending the hearing and determination of the motion on notice.”
