The Supreme Court will on May 27 deliver judgement on the leadership crisis rocking the Imo state chapter of the All Progressive Congress, APC.
A five-man panel of justices of the apex court led by Justice Kayode Ariwola, adjourned to determine the merit of a suit that is seeking to set aside the judgement of the Abuja Division of the Court of Appeal, which sacked Mr Daniel Nwafor as the Chairman of the APC in Imo state.The court admitted the appeal for judgement after all the parties adopted their final briefs of argument.
Robert Emukpoeruo, SAN, counsel of the APC, urged the court to allow the appeal marked SC/CV/884/2020.He argued that the appellate court erred in law when it okayed Nwafor’s removal, based on a pre-election matter that was lodged before a High Court of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, by one of its chieftains in the state, Mr. Evan Enwerem. An Abuja High Court had earlier in a ruling by Justice Othman Musa delivered on July 20, 2020, ordered Nwafor not to enforce or give effect to a 2018 judgement of the court that recognised him as Chairman of APC in Imo state, pending the determination of the appeal that was filed by the party. Justice Musa noted that the crux of the appeal by the APC was that at the time the court entertained the suit that led to the judgement that recognized Nwafor as its Chairman in Imo, it was more than 14 days from the date it held congresses in the state.
