The Federal High Court sitting in Abeokuta, Ogun State, has restrained the leaders of the state chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC), from suspending or expelling ward executive committees of the party at Ifo Wards 1,2,3 and 11, Constituency 1.

The judgement obtained by our correspondent had as plaintiffs 10 leaders of the affected wards in Ifo Local Government, that instituted the legal action against the party leaders in the state over the alleged plan to expel them(plaintiffs).

In the originating summons, the plaintiffs dragged the State APC Chairman, Chief Derin Adebiyi, the Independent National Electoral Commission(INEC) and the Ogun State Commissioner of Police, Ahmed Iliyasu, before the court.

The plaintiffs had asked the court to compel the defendants to obey the subsisting judgement, which conferred legitimacy on the ward executive committees in the mentioned wards.

Granting the order restraining the defendants, the court ordered the defendants or their proxies to recognise the plaintiffs as the authentic officers of the ward executive committees in wards 1,2,3 and 11 in Ifo 1 state constituency.

The summons partly read, ” An order restraining the defendants by themselves, agents, servants, proxies and surrogates from suspending or expelling the plaintiffs from the first defendant’s political party and recognising them as the authentic officers of the ward executive committees in wards 1,2,3 and 11 in Ifo 1 state constituency.”

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