Suspended National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Adams Oshiomhole said on Wednesday night he is still in charge of the party.
Oshiomhole took the position following an interlocutory injunction granted by a Federal Capital Territory High Court that he should desist from parading himself as the National Chairman of the APC pending the determination of a suit filed by six members of the party seeking to permanently remove him from the position.
He has also filed an appeal before the Court of Appeal to vacate the order of the High Court.
This was disclosed by Oshiomhole’s spokesman Simon Egbegbulem, who said: “We have filed for a stay of execution and appealed the ruling.
“With those processes currently before the Appeal Court, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole remains the national chairman of the party.”
Recall that Justice Danlami Senchi, while delivering his ruling on an application of interlocutory injunction by six members of the party, directed the APC to desist from acknowledging Oshiomhole as its chairman.
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He also directed the party not to allow him access to its secretariat, pending the hearing and determination of the case.
The plaintiffs, led by Mustapha Salihu, had prayed the court to stop Oshiomhole from acting as APC chairman since he had been suspended as a member of the party in his Etsako Ward 10 in Edo State.
They listed Oshiomhole as first respondent and the APC as second respondent in the application filed on their behalf by Oluwole Afolabi.
The plaintiffs also stated that Oshiomhole’s rights as a member of the party had ceased by virtue of his suspension at the ward level. They argued that, since the former Edo State governor never challenged the suspension, he could not continue to act as the party’s chairman.
Justice Senchi further held that Oshiomhole had been wrongfully kept in office.
