An FCT high court sitting in Maitama, Abuja, has adjourned until May 12 to rule on a preliminary objection filed by the embattled Chairman of Labour Party (LP), Julius Abure and three others challenging the jurisdiction of the court to entertain a matter filed by Martins Esikpali John and seven others.
POLITICS NIGERIA reports that the plaintiffs are seeking for the removal of the four respondents through an ex-parte motion brought before the court.
During the resumed hearing, counsel for the 1st and 2nd respondents, Alex Ejesieme SAN, informed the court that he filed an application seeking to challenge the jurisdiction of the court to adjudicate in the matter brought before it by the claimants.
He told the court that the plaintiffs invaded LP’s secretariat and vandalized it against the court order. He added that since the order was made, his clients have not violated it, and he filed a 13 grounds objection urging the court to dismiss the suit.
Counsel for the claimants, George Ibrahim, told the court that the defendants had yet to obey the April 5 order of the court and were still parading themselves as national officers of the LP.
Recall that Justice Muazu had on April 5 issued a restraining order while ruling in an ex-parte application argued by Ogwu Onoja, SAN on behalf of the claimants. Onoja had in the application informed the court how the sacked national officers allegedly forged several documents of the FCT High Court to carry out unlawful substitutions in the last general elections.
Onoja tendered several documents and confirmed to the Judge that the Chief Registrar of the Court wrote the Labour Party to disown several documents used for the alleged criminal activities by Abure and three others.
Justice Muazu held that the application and the supporting affidavits have made out a good case for the request to be granted, and subsequently ordered that the four officers should immediately stop parading themselves as National Officers of Labour Party.
