Federal High Court Lagos Complex.
An Owerri, Imo state Federal High Court has mandated the All Progressives Congress (APC) to halt Saturday’s state congress or another congress in Imo, pending the willpower of a go well with filed by Barrister Mbagwu Augustine and 4 others in opposition to the APC and 10 others.
Famzn News gathered that the order was served by the Court on Friday.
According to the Motion Exparte filed on Thursday, the plaintiffs sought “an order of interim injunction restraining the 1st to 10th Defendants, their privies, servants, agents or any one acting on their behalf or any organ of the AlI Progressives Congress from holding a local government area congress of the All Progressives Congress or any other congress in Imo State pending the hearing and determination of the motion on notice for interlocutory injunction.”
The court docket, presided over by Justice A. Lewis Allagoa ordered that, “the respondents are hereby ordered to look in court docket on the following adjourned date to point out trigger why the order shouldn't be granted.
“That time is hereby abridged to order that the returned date shall be 22nd May, 2018, provided that the respondents are served 48 hours before then; that all parties in the matter should maintain status quo ante bellum; that the matter stands adjourned to the 22nd day of May, 2018.”
Recall that Governor Okorocha has been having a working battle with some stakeholders of the APC within the state relating to the ward and native authorities congresses.