APC crisis: NWC to investigate authorisation of statement admitting Ajimobi, others

According to the APC National Vice Chairman, Comrade Salihu Mustapha, whoever found culpable would be highly sanctioned.
Mustapha, who spoke to journalists in the party’s National Secretariat in Abuja, also commented on the alleged Kano State High Court vacating the suspension of the National Chairman, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole by an Abuja High Court.
According to him, the two courts are courts of coordinating jurisdiction, and therefore has no power to set aside ruling of each other.
An Abuja High Court on Wednesday asked the APC National Chairman, Adams Oshiomhole to stop parading himself as the National Chairman of APC but on Thursday another High Court in Kano ruled that the status quo should be maintained before the ruling of the Abuja High Court.
But reacting to this, the APC National Vice Chairman said: “First of all I want be very brief because we have a case in court and I am the plaintiff so it would be sub judice for me. But I want to tell you from my knowledge of law that two courts of coordinate jurisdiction cannot sit on appeal on an order or judgement given by each other.
“A federal high court cannot sit on appeal of a FCT high court. The only court that has the jurisdiction to hear an appeal is the Court of Appeal in this case and the court order of the FCT high court was served yesterday.
“Most of you have the copy of the order and it is an elementary law that first in time prevails. That of the Abuja high court came earlier and we seek for interlocutory injunction and there is affidavit of urgency which seek to preventvcertain kinds of mischief which we prayed that the court should help prevent which they did.
“So, If you look at the main reason why that interlocutory injunction is granted I don’t think that a federal high court of the same jurisdiction will now come and set it aside. We don’t need the knowledge of law to know that a high court cannot sit on a matter of appeal on high court.
“So, I don’t want to say much about the order but I want to say that it is only the court of appeal that can vacate this injunction.”
Asked if there was a leadership vacum in the party, he said: “As you can see we are in the secretariat and we are running the affairs of the party. So the suspension still prevails until the hearing of the matter or if there is any contrary order from the Court of Appeal.”