Chief Victor Giadom, All Progressive Council (APC) Deputy National Secretary, has emerged as APC chairman following the suspension of former Chairman, Adams Oshiomole.
Giadom has also cancelled the screening for the Edo State governorship primary, stating that he has taken over based on a previous court order empowering him to do so.
According to him, he has the backing of the members of the party’s National Working Committee (NWC).
Giadom was appointed Chairman on Tuesday after a three-man panel of the court of appeal affirmed the suspension of Adams Oshiomhole as national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC).
In a judgment delivered by Justice Mohammed Lamido, on Tuesday, the three-man panel dismissed Oshiomhole’s appeal for lacking in merit.
The panel’s decision followed the decision of an Abuja high court in March 2020, which had ordered the suspension of Oshiomhole as national chairman of the APC.
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Chief Victor Giadom is now the Acting National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) according to a ruling of the FCT High Court.
A statement issued by Wole Afolabi, the counsel to the Plaintiff in the suit filed by at the FCT High Court, reads:
COURT RECOGNIZES VICTOR GIADOM AS ACTING NATIONAL CHAIRMAN OF APC
Our attention has been drawn to a Statement purportedly issued by the Publicity Secretary of the APC to the effect that Senator Abiola Ajumobi is to act as the National Chairman of APC following the suspension from office of Comrade Adams Oshiomhole by the Court of Appeal.
We wish to state that the statement must have been issued in complete ignorance of the order of the FCT High Court issued on 16th of March, 2020, by Hon. Justice S.U Bature in Suit No. FCT/HC/M/6447/2020 to the effect that Chief Victor Giadom is to act as the National Chairman of the party due to the suspension of Adams Oshiomhole as the National Chairman.
The order was given the same day that the Court of Appeal earlier gave Oshiomhole a temporary respite by staying the execution of the said order suspending Oshiomhole. Now that the Court of Appeal has affirmed the order of suspension, it is only proper that the Order recognizing Chief Victor Giadom is implemented.
Consequently, we have written to all law-enforcement agencies to implement the said order and any one who attempts to parade himself/herself other than Chief Victor Giadom as the Acting Chairman of the APC would be facing contempt of court proceedings.
Below is court order recognizing Victor Giadom as APC chairman.
It would be recalled that on June 12 the Chairman of the screening committee, Jonathan Ayuba of All Progressives Congress (APC) disqualified Governor Godwin Obaseki from participating in the Edo governorship primary slated for June 22.
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Ayuba said this while presenting his screening report to Adams Oshiomhole, APC national chairman, at the national secretariat in Abuja last week Friday.
