Justice Rabi Gwandu of the National Industrial Court , sitting in Lagos, yesterday frowned at the flagrant disobedience of her order, which restrained Trade Union Congress from holding its 12th triennial delegates’ conference pending the hearing and determination of the substantive suit before the court.
Justice Gwandu, made the order in a suit filed by the Association of Senior Staff of Banks, Insurance and Financial Institutions and nine other associations against the TUC. According to him, the Order of the court stopping the defendants from holding the conference or doing anything whatsoever on the subject matter until the determination of the substantive suit was clear and unambiguous.
However, counsel to TUC, Ambassador Sola Iji told the court that the First defendant’s, decision to proceed with the 12th Triennial National Delegates Conference was based on an order by the National Industrial Court in Abuja. The claimants, in their originating summons, had prayed the court to declare that by virtue of the agreements and resolutions reached and ratified at the 11th triennial delegates’ conference of the defendant held on June 28, 2019, at NAF Centre, Abuja, the 1st claimant should produce the next president of the TUC for the year 2022 to 2015.
He swore that sometimes in 2019, due to the leadership imbroglio and the intricate nature of the situation around the presidency of the TUC, members of the defendant, during its triennial delegates’ conference, constituted an electoral committee chaired by Comrade Augustine Etafo of Construction and Engineering Senior Staff Association of Nigeria and also a deputy president of the Congress to work out modalities for elections into TUC, as a way of resolving the imbroglio and saving the...
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