ASABA – A Federal High Court in Asaba, on Tuesday re-ordered maintenance of status quo ante belum in respect of the case between the Delta State All Progressive Congress (APC) factional groups.
The court equally adjourned the hearing involving the two factions of the party in the State over the authentic list to be recognized by the Independent Electoral Commission (INEC) till December 5, 2018.
Thus, the National Working Committee (NWC) of the APC was restrained from submitting the list of all party candidates for the 2019 election from Delta State to INEC.
At the resumed proceeding of the case on Tuesday, the trial judge, Justice Toyin Adegoke, announced the new date for hearing of the case particularly on the motion filed by counsel, Niyi Akintola (SAN) to the 1st and 2nd defendants for stay of further proceeding in the matter on grounds that the defense had filed another suit in an appellate court in Benin-City.
The trial judge predicated the adjournment partly on the plaintiff counsel, Oghenejafor’s written response to a 42-paragraph application by counsel to the 1st and 2nd defendants and served on the plaintiff counsel only yesterday, in which several issues have been raised for legal consideration.
Earlier, while adjourning the case till November 13, 2018 for continuation of hearing, the National Chairman of APC, Mr Adams Oshiomhole, who was joined in the suit as the 2nd respondent with All Progressives Congress (APC) as 1st respondent, Independent National Electoral Commission and Prophet Jones Erue as the 3rd and 4th respondents, respectively and the plaintiff were ordered to maintain status quo and desist from submitting any list of candidates from Delta State from the two factions to INEC till the substantive suit was heard.
The Chief Cyril Ogodo-led State Working Committee (SWC) in Delta State and others had instituted an interlocutory injunction restraining APC, Oshiomhole from submitting the list of candidates from Prophet Jones Erue faction to INEC.
“Parties shall maintain status quo as at today, the 17th day of October, 2018; that is the order of this court”, Adegoke ruled.
Counsel to the plaintiffs, O.J. Oghenejakpor, said of the ruling, “The implication is that, as at today, no list of candidates has been submitted to INEC and none will be submitted until the court hears this case. Technically, the court has granted an injunction restraining any person to nominate any candidate from Delta State for the 2019 election.”
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Source: Daily Independent
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