Court Of Appeal is set to give judgment in the appeal, filed by the ADC, Mark and Aregbesola challenging the decision of Justice Joyce Abdulmalik of the federal high court in Abuja, which stopped them from cutting short the four years tenure of the state officers of the party.
The lower court also stopped the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) from recognising any state congresses of the ADC, that are not conducted by duly elected state executives of the party.
In an originating summons filed at the Federal High Court, the ADC state chairmen had sought judicial interpretation of Constitutional provisions guiding the tenure and powers of party organs, particularly in relation to the party’s leadership and planned state congresses.
The main issue of their dispute was whether the four-year tenure of the ADC’s State Working Committee and State Executive Committee remains valid and subsisting, pending the conduct of a properly constituted State Congress and the convocation of a National Convention.
The plaintiffs had anchored their argument on Section 223 of the 1999 Constitution as well as Article 17 of the party’s constitution and a Final Mediation Report dated December 23, 2023.
Roluke Ogundele
