About 24 hours after the dissolution of the Augustine Agada-led Benue State Executive Committee of the All Progressives Congress (APC), the state chapter has initiated a contempt proceeding against the party’s National Chairman, Dr Abdullahi Ganduje for alleged disobedience of Court order.
The decision came after the order by Justice Theresa Igoche of a Benue State High Court which stopped the APC National Working Committee (NWC) from dissolving the Benue State chapter executive led by Augustine Agada.
Agada and eight others slammed contempt charges against the Ganduje led National Working Committee (NWC) of the APC.
The plaintiffs in an application prayed the court to compel Ganduje-led NWC to adhere to the decision not to remove them from office until the expiration of their four years tenure.
Agada, in an affidavit deposed to by his counsel, M.T Aiyebo, insisted that the Ganduje-led NWC has been duly served the order of the court.
The dissolved Benue EXCO also prayed the court to issue a punitive measure against the Ganduje led NWC over the disobedience of the earlier decision of the court.
Agada, in the affidavit, expressed surprise that in the evening of Wednesday, August 21 2024, at 6pm, Ganduje-led NWC held a meeting where he went ahead to dissolve his executive committee and appointed a caretaker committee against the earlier court order.
“That I saw on several Television stations that same evening about 8pm and several other News media that the Benue State Working Committee of the respondent on record has been dissolved by the respondent against whom the leave of this Honourable court is been sought”, he emphasized.
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