Appeal Court upholds Oshiomhole’s suspension as APC National Chairman

The Appeal Court sitting in Abuja has upheld the suspension of Adams Aliyu Oshiomhole as the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC.

Kokomansion recalls that an FCT High Court had on 4th March, granted an application by six members of the APC in Edo State suspending Oshiomhole from office.

In a unanimous judgment, the first appeal delivered by Justice Eunice Onyemanam ,the court held that the trial court had territorial jurisdiction to have entertained the suit as it did .

The court also withdrew his rights and privileges as national chairman of the party including his security details.

The appellate predicated its decision on the ground that Oshiomole as the first appellant is based in Abuja while the APC also had its national headquarters in Abuja.

In the judgment in the second appeal delivered by Justice Mohammed Lamido, the court held that there was no basis for the two appellants to hold that they were denied fair hearing during proceedings at the trial court .

It further held that the suspension of Oshiomole from ward 10 of Etsako local government of Edo was ratified at the ward , local government and state level as required by law.

“The identity of those who suspended Oshiomole were not in doubt because in their unchallenged affidavit they made it clear that they were party members and officers of the party,   therefore the appeal lacks merit,” the court held

In the two dismissed appeals Oshiomole and the APC were the appellants.

NAN reports that on March 4, Juctice Danlami Senchi, a judge of the FCT high court in Abuja, ordered the suspension of Oshiomhole as national chairman pending the determination of a suit filed by one Oluwale Afolabi.

Senchi said it was wrong of the APC to have kept Oshiomhole as chairman after he was suspended by the Edo chapter of the party.

But Oshimhole approached the court of appeal seeking a stay of execution of the judgement.