The applicants, Hon. Sulaimon Olalekan Bude, Prince Banji Adesegun and Hon. Bola Lamina are challenging the failure of the APC in Ogun State to swear them in as the duly elected party Chairmen in Ward 9, Ward 10 and Ward 11 respectively.
In an affidavit deposed to by the first applicant, Bude on behalf of himself as well as the second and third applicants, it was said that: “We represent Wards 9, 10 and 11 of Ijebu North Constituency II, and we are the Chairmen of our respective Wards. “Since the election, the 1st and 2nd Respondents have failed, refused and neglected to swear us into our respective offices as Ward Chairmen.”
They held that the continuous act of the respondents, “though an internal affair of the party, amount to an infringement of our civil right as party members.”“Whether the court possesses the jurisdiction to adjudicate upon the suit.