•APC petitions judge over suit to disqualify Ize-Iyamu, deputyAs part of the efforts to reposition the All Progressives Congress in the South-south, the Caretaker/Extra-Ordinary National Convention Planning Committee Chairman, Governor Mai Mala Buni, yesterday reconciled the Minister of Transportation, Hon. Rotimi Amaechi, and the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Mr. Timipre Sylva.
It protested the judge’s decision to give accelerated hearing in the suit to stop Ize-Iyamu from taking part in the September 19 governorship election in the state. “We have agreed that both of us will work together,” Amaechi, in company with Sylva, told journalists after the peace parley. The order followed the complaint by a plaintiff in the matter, Mr. Kalu Kalu, that the respondents have been evading service of court summons since they got wind of the suit.
In the suit with number: FHC/ABJ/ CS/736/2020, the plaintiff asked for an order of the Federal High Court setting aside the dissolution of the NWC by APC’s NEC meeting held at the presidential villa. Defendants in the suit marked FHC/ABJ/ CS/758/2020, are APC, INEC, Ganiyu and Ize-Iyamu as 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th defendants respectively.
In the petition dated August 20, 2020, and signed by the Secretary of the Caretaker Committee, Senator John Udouedehe, the party accused Justice Taiwo of moving faster in the hearing of the suit by granting abridgment of time to plaintiffs in the matter when a motion for the same had not been moved.
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