Benue APC crisis: Dissolved Agada-led exco drags Ganduje to court over contempt

The last may not have been heard of the crisis rocking the Benue State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) following the decision of the dissolved state executive members, led by Augustine Agada, to drag the party’s National Chairman, Abdullahi Ganduje, to court over contempt.

Benue State High Court on Wednesday restrained the APC National Working Committee (NWC) from dissolving the State Working Committee.

Despite the court order, the leadership of the party on Wednesday announced the dissolution of the Agada-led executive in defiance of the court order.

To this end, Agada, alongside eight others, on Thursday sued Ganduje for contempt.

In a motion on notice No: MHC/1585/M/2024, the Agada-led Benue exco prayed the court to compel the Ganduje-led NWC to adhere to the decision not to remove them from office until the expiration of their four-year tenure.

Agada, in an affidavit deposed by his counsel, M.T. Aiyebo, insisted that the Ganduje-led NWC was duly served the court order on Wednesday at about 4:00 p.m.

He added that the order restraining the APC under Ganduje was also served at the office of the National Legal Adviser at 4:02 p.m. on Wednesday at the party’s national secretariat.

Agada, in the affidavit, expressed surprise that on the evening of Wednesday, August 21, 2024, at 6:00 p.m., the Ganduje-led NWC held a meeting where they went ahead to dissolve his executive committee and appointed a caretaker committee, against the earlier court order.

The dissolved exco therefore prayed the court to issue punitive measures against the Ganduje-led NWC for the disobedience of the earlier court decision.