An application for joinder filed
by Senator Ovie Omo-Agege, for the Delta APC annulment judgment, was on Friday
dismissed by the Court of Appeal, sitting in Benin, for lack of merit.
Omo-Agege is the Senator
representing Delta Central Senatorial District.
The Court also struck out an
application for joinder by the lawmaker-elect for Ughelli North, South and Udu
Federal Constituency, Francis Waive.
Omo-Agege and Waive had
approached the Court for leave to be joined as parties to the suit in which the
Federal High Court, sitting in Asaba, sacked the Jones Erue-led APC State
Executive Committee, which conducted primaries where both of them emerged as
candidates of the party for the 2019 National Assembly election.
In a unanimously decision read by
Justice Philomena Mbua Ekpe, the court ruled that both applications filed by
Omo-Agege and Waive lacked merit and subsequently dismissed the case with a
fine of N300, 000 against the appellants (Omo-Agege and Waive).
The Appeal Court said the
plaintiffs could not claim to be unaware of the case, hence they could not seek
to be joined or challenged the judgement, at this moment.
The Court held that only Adams
Oshiomhole-led National Working Committee (NWC) that were parties to the case
could bring an application to appeal the Asaba Federal High Court annulment
judgment.
Recall that Omo-Agege and Waive
had through their Counsel, Alex Iziyon, SAN, while seeking the leave of the
court to appeal the judgement, filed an exparte motion which was granted to
enable them serve Chief Cyril Ogodo by pasting service at the state party
secretariat in Asaba.
The Federal High Court 1, Asaba,
in its March 18, 2019, judgement delivered by Justice Toyin Adegoke, sacked the
Jones Erue-led State Executive Committee, and upheld the Cyril Ogodo faction as
the authentic party’s State Executive Committee.
The court also in its judgement
annulled all actions taken by the sacked Jones Erue-led executive committee,
including party primaries and the list of candidates which emerged from their
factional primaries declaring it null and void.
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