National chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Adams Oshiomhole, has filed for a stay of execution on the court order which directed him to stop parading himself as APC national chair.
Mr Oshiomhole’s media aide, Simon Egbegbulem, said on Wednesday night that his principal had filed an appeal against the order.
“With those processes currently before the Appeal Court, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole remains the national chairman of the party,” he told The Nation.
Justice Danlami Senchi of a Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court in Jabi gave the order on Wednesday following an application of interlocutory injunction asking the court to suspend Oshiomhole, having been suspended as a member of the APC by the party in Edo State.
Police officers and operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS) immediately took over the party’s national secretariat shortly after the order.
The police arrived in two batches from the FCT Command and Wuse Divisional Police Station on Wednesday evening in nine Toyota Hilux vans.
All members of staff present on their arrival were asked to return to their offices while visitors were advised to leave to forestall breakdown of law and order.
