The Adamawa State Excessive Court docket IX on Monday entertained a swimsuit filed by the ‘sacked’ state executives, who’re in search of a return to workplace.
The previous executives are in courtroom difficult their removing from workplace by a brand new steering committee put in place by the nationwide leaders of the celebration.
The plaintiffs, led by a factional chief who was the disputed ADC Chairman in Adamawa State, Shehu Yohanna, and one different, are asking for judicial intervention to reverse what they described as their illegal removing earlier than the tip of their four-year time period.
The swimsuit lists Umar Sulaiman, Sadiq Dasin, Saidu Komsiri, Babachir Lawal, the ADC Nationwide Working Committee (NWC), and Senator David Mark as defendants.
Counsel for the defendants, Ibrahim Effiong, filed a preliminary objection and different processes, together with a movement on discover to cease proceedings.
The courtroom took all purposes collectively and ordered the defendants to file their assertion of defence in order that each the objection and the substantive matter may be heard on the subsequent adjourned date, which it fastened for the twentieth of this month.
Talking to reporters after the courtroom session, the plaintiffs’ counsel, Yakubu Philemon, SAN, defined that the matter got here up for additional point out and for the defendants to point out trigger why the movement ex parte and an order of interim injunction shouldn’t be granted towards them.
On his half, the counsel to the defendants confirmed that they’d filed a discover of preliminary objection difficult the courtroom’s jurisdiction to entertain the matter.
He mentioned, “It’s a purely inner celebration dispute. We consider the courtroom has no enterprise interfering within the inner affairs of the ADC.”
