Following the announcement of the immediate Governor of Oyo State and the current Deputy National Chairman (South) of All Progressives Congress (APC) as the Acting National Chairman of the party, Chief Oluwole Afolabi, Counsel to Chief Victor Giadom, stated that the appointment was made in error.
Afolabi, in a press release, stated that the court has ruled that Chief Victor Giadom is to be appointed as the Acting Chairman of the party, following the suspension of Comrade Adams Oshiomhole as the party chairman.
Giadom is the party’s incumbent Deputy National Secretary and a member of the party’s National Working Committee, NWC.
The press statement titled,”Court Recognises Victor Giadom as Acting National Chairman of APC”, reads in part:
“Our attention has been drawn to a statement purportedly issued by the Publicity Secretary of the APC to the effect that Senator Abiola Ajumobi is to act as the National Chairman of APC following the suspension from office of Comrade Adams Oshiomhole by the Court of Appeal.
“We wish to state that the statement must have been issued in complete ignorance of the order of the FCT High Court issued on 16th of March, 2020, by Hon. Justice S.U Bature in Suit No. FCT/HC/M/6447/2020 to the effect that Chief Victor Giadom is to act as the National Chairman of the party due to the suspension of Adams Oshiomhole as the National Chairman.
“The order was given the same day that the Court of Appeal earlier gave Oshiomhole a temporary respite by staying the execution of the said order suspending Oshiomhole.
“Now that the Court of Appeal has affirmed the order of suspension, it is only proper that the Order recognising Chief Victor Giadom is implemented.
“Consequently, we have written to all law-enforcement agencies to implement the said order and any one who attempts to parade himself/herself other than Chief Victor Giadom as the Acting Chairman of the APC would be facing contempt of court proceedings”.
