A Federal High Court sitting in Port-Harcourt, Rivers State has dismissed a suit challenging the competency of the Governor Mai Mala Buni-led Caretaker Extra-Ordinary Convention Planning Committee, CECPC of the All Progressives Congress.
Justice Pheobe Msuen Ayua, while delivering verdict on the suit dismissed the name of the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, the APC National Working Committee, and the National Secretary, CECPC, sued as second, third and fourth Defendants, respectively, for being non-juristic persons.
The Court put to rest issues surrounding the legality of the Buni-led Caretaker Extra-Ordinary Convention Planning Committee.
The ruling upholds a Supreme Court judgment, which held that the National Executive Committee, NEC of the party is empowered to create, elect and appoint Committees, including the instant CECPC or any other committee it may deem necessary to act in any capacity.
It would be recalled that the ruling party has been entangled in crisis, with leaders divided into power blocs, as the struggle for the control of the party structure hot up, ahead of the 2023 general elections.
