Dogara, others ask court to stop Bauchi APC congresses

The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara and nine others have approached a Federal High Court in Abuja challenging the conduct of the ward and local government congresses the APC in Bauchi State.

They also sought for interim and interlocutory injunctions retraining the defendants from proceeding with tomorrow’s state congress of the party in Bauchi State.

The speaker and the other applicants also in a letter addressed to the APC chairman, John Odigie-Oyegun, dated May 17, 2018, notified him of the pendency of the suit challenging the result of the already conducted ward and local government congresses of the party on May 5 and 12, 2018 for being fabricated and in violation of the party’s constitution.

The letter signed by their counsel, Abdulhakeem Mustapha (SAN), also demanded cancellation of the planned state congress “In view of the longsettled principle of law that when a suit is pending in court, parties are not allowed to take steps that will have nugatory effect on the outcome of the suit or foist on the court a fait accompli.”

The writ of summons was jointly filed alongside senators Sulaiman Nazif, Isa Hammah Misau, Muhammad Muhammad, Dr Ibrahim Lame, Hon. Ibrahim Zailani, Ambassador Yusuf Tuggar, Captain Mohammed Bala Jibrin, Hon. Mohammed Aminu Tukur, and Hon. Maryam Garba Bagel. Those joined as defendants were the APC, the national chairman of the APC, the APC national secretary, the APC state chairman, Dr. Tony MacFoy and Sam Para.

In the summons, the applicants sought for an order restraining the persons who were declared as winners after the wards and local government congresses purportedly held on the 5th and 12th of May, 2018 respectively from parading themselves as executive officers/ delegates of the 1st defendant (APC).

The suit is expected heard expeditiously. to be