Court of Appeal Sacks Exco of Kwara APC Faction

The Court of Appeal in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital, yesterday sacked the Hon Ishola Balogun-Fulani faction of theAll Progressives Congress (APC) in the state.

The court thereafter, affirmed the authenticity of the Hon Bashir Bolarinwa-led APC executives in the state.

The state High Court had on December 19 last year ruled that the dissolved Ishola Balogun-Fulani executive is the authentic exco of the APC in the state.

The lower court thus nullified any candidate produced by the Bashir Bolarinwa executives for the forthcoming elections.

Dissatisfied by the judgement of the lower court, the APC (appellant) approached the appellate court for redress.

The appellants’ grounds for appeal are that “the claimants cannot join the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) at the state high court because INEC is a federal government agency; the amendment of their originating summons was brought in bad faith.

“They brought issues that were not in existence as at the time of filing the suit originally. Even though the lower court has discretion, its discretion must be exercised judicially and judiciously which was not done in this circumstance.”

The appellate court in an interlocutory judgement it delivered last week upheld the nomination of AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq as the state APC governorship candidate.

Reading his judgement on the main appeal yesterday in Ilorin, Justice Ibrahim Salauwa set aside the judgement of the lower court and upheld the Bashir Bolainwa-led executives.

He added there would be no reason to deliver a judgement on the same matter with the same parties after the interlocutory judgement of last week.