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BREAKING: APC Expels Former Governor, Ex-Speaker, Orji, Others, See Why
The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Enugu State has expelled 41 members of the party for taking the state leadership to court.
Onyxnewsng reports that those expelled include a former Speaker of the Enugu State House of Assembly, Hon. Eugene Odo, former military governor, Group Capt. Joe Orji, a former Deputy Governorship candidate of the party in the State, Prince Chikwado Chukwunta, Gen. J.O.J Okoloagu, a former Reps member, Chukwuemeka Ujam and many others.
Recall that the suspended members had dragged the Chairman of the APC Caretaker Committee in the State, Dr. Ben Nwoye before a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja seeking his removal from office.
However, the vacation judge, Justice Sylvanus Chinedu Oriji refused to grant the interlocutory injunction.
He instead ordered that the motion on notice and the entire case be assigned to a regular court at the end of vacation for full determination of the matter.
Speaking to journalists on Sunday, Nwoye said the forty-one members were expelled following their alleged violation of the provision of the party’s constitution.
The Enugu APC chairman, quoting Article 21 (D), Section V of the APC Constitution, said the members self-expelled themselves from the party by filing a suit in court without first exhausting the internal mechanisms as provided in the APC Constitution.
Article 21 (D), Section V of the APC Constitution provides that, “Any member who files an action in court of law against the party or any of its officers on any matters relating to the discharge of the duties of the party without first exhausting the avenues for the redress provided for in this Constitution shall automatically stand expelled from the party on filing such action and no appeal against expulsion as stipulated in this clause shall be entertained until the withdrawal of the action from court by the member.”
“I arrived at my home and I found a copy of a lawsuit pasted on my door, within that lawsuit is an order sought by the applicants but was denied by the court,” Nwoye told journalists.
“One Prince Gilbert Chikwado Chukwunta and 40 others filed a claim against me; they sought an ex parte order before an FCT High Court, seeking to remove me as the chairman of the party in Enugu State.
“They sued me and alleged among other things that I was suspended by certain persons, who they attached their signatures, but the learned jurist denied giving the order. He directed them to serve me, but instead of serving me as ordered by the court, they pasted it on my door.
“But what is important is that for those who said that Ben Nwoye has been removed, the removal of Ben Nwoye is now a subject of court, and the court has refused to remove me. I wasn’t there but the learned judge refused to remove me.
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“The other point is that the petition which they signed, they forged numerous people’s signatures; one of the people they forged their signature is Mrs Kate Offor, she never signed a petition seeking to remove me.
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