The leadership crisis rocking the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC) has shifted to the Court of Appeal where the Abuja division of the court will today commence hearing in an appeal by the embattled National Chairman, Adams Oshiomhole.
In the appeal, Oshiomhole is seeking among others, the reversal of his suspension by a High Court of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).
Justice Danlami Senchi, had in an interlocutory ruling penultimate Wednesday, ordered among others, that Oshiomhole should desist from parading himself as the APC Chairman.
Our source findings revealed that the Court of Appeal’s Registry communicated the hearing date to parties via hearing notices sent to them.
The appeal which is predicated on four grounds is contesting the ruling of Justice Senchi stating that he erred in law and arrived at a wrong conclusion, which occasioned a miscarriage of justice by placing him on suspension at an interlocutory stage of a suit instituted against him by some aggrieved members of the party.
Oshiomhole also argued that the High Court further erred in law when it decided that he, in the performance of his duties as APC National Chairman, would interfere in the court action filed against him by the aggrieved members.
He argued that the issue of duties as APC National Chairman is a matter which arose from substantive issues for determination and claim and ought not to have been determined at the interlocutory stage of the main matter.
Oshiomhole claimed that the trial judge erred in law and arrived at a wrong conclusion, which occasioned a miscarriage when after ordering the filing of pleadings and immediately set down motion for interlocutory injunction for hearing in the absence of pleadings.