The ruling All Progressives Congress has kicked in opposition to the removing of the Tony Okocha-led caretaker committee, saying the Rivers State courtroom lacks the ability to take such motion.
The warning comes a number of hours after a Rivers State Excessive Court docket sitting in Port Harcourt nullified the sacking of the Emeka Beke-led government of the APC in Rivers State.
The courtroom presided over by Justice Sika Aprioku, on Monday dominated that the Nationwide Working Committee of the occasion erred in dissolving the elected executives led by Emeka Beke.
The choose acknowledged that the APC Nationwide Working Committee doesn’t have the ability to dissolve an elected government of a state nor can arrange a caretaker committee when the tenure of the elected government continues to be operating.
He due to this fact barred Tony Okocha and members of the CTC from additional parading as executives of the APC in Rivers State.
However the caretaker committee kicked, insisting that the reverse was the case.
In an unique interview with The PUNCH on Tuesday, the Spokesman of Rivers APC Caretaker Committee, Chibuike Ikenga, warned that the judgment can’t override an earlier one granted by the Supreme Court docket.
He mentioned, “It (sack) is an effort in futility. The reason being that the Supreme Court docket has made pronouncements and brought selections as to points that pertain to the interior affairs of a political occasion, that are justifiable earlier than any courtroom.
“Due to this fact, what now we have seen was additionally a choreographed judgment, within the sense that the choose and a few his colleagues are dancing to the tune of the Rivers State authorities. The judgment itself is a transparent indication of these coalitions you might have seen from haters of President Bola Tinubu and the transfer to take him out of energy after shedding the election serially in Rivers State.
“We’ve spoken to our legal professionals and they’re going to enchantment accordingly. By the best way, our occasion has given us the ability to proceed to behave as a result of it’s strictly the interior affairs of the occasion. We’re not below any type of strain. As you’ll be able to see, we’re nonetheless going about our busy as a result of we all know the place of the legislation.
“The courtroom can not drive individuals eliminated for anti-party actions to steer us within the state. These individuals left the marketing campaign for President Bola Tinubu and supported Atiku Abubakar of the PDP. It was based mostly on that they had been dissolved.”