Benue APC Crisis: Augustine Agada’s Team Takes National Chairman to Court over Contempt

A new development has emerged in the ongoing crisis rocking the Benue State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC). The dissolved state executive members, led by Augustine Agada, have taken the party’s National Chairman, Abdullahi Ganduje, to court over contempt.

According to Media Talk Africa, a Benue State High Court on Wednesday restrained the APC National Working Committee (NWC) from dissolving the State Working Committee. Despite this court order, the party leadership announced the dissolution of the Agada-led executive on Wednesday, defying the court order.

In response, Agada, along with eight others, filed a motion on notice No: MHC/1585/M/2024, praying 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’s counsel, M.T. Aiyebo, deposed an affidavit stating that the Ganduje-led NWC was duly served the court order on Wednesday at about 4:00 p.m. The order was also served at the office of the National Legal Adviser at 4:02 p.m. on Wednesday at the party’s national secretariat.

In the affidavit, Agada 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 has therefore prayed the court to issue punitive measures against the Ganduje-led NWC for the disobedience of the earlier court decision.