Enugu State Chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has expelled former military governor, Group Capt. Joe Orji, former assembly speaker, Hon. Eugene Odo and 39 others for filing suits against the party, an action that violates the party’s constitution.
Among those expelled are Group Capt. Joe Orji, a former Deputy Governorship candidate of the party in the State, Prince Chikwado Chukwunta, Gen. J.O.J Okoloagu, a former Reps member, Chukwuemeka Ujam and several others.
The announcement was made on Sunday by Chairman of the APC Caretaker Committee in the state. According to him, the members self-expelled themselves from the party by filing a suit in court without first exhausting the internal mechanisms as provided in the APC Constitution—Article 21 (D), Section V.
The party members dragged Nwoye before a federal high court sitting in Abuja seeking his removal from office.
In the suit No: FCT/HC/CV/2107/2021, they had sought an ex parte order to stop Nwoye from parading himself as the chairman of the party. However, the vacation judge, Justice Sylvanus Chinedu Oriji held, “The Defendants/Respondents shall be put on notice of the application for injunction. The orders sought in the ex parte application No. M/5317/2021 are refused.”
Nwoye said all the individuals involved, by the operations of the constitution, have expelled themselves from the party because they did not exhaust the internal alternative dispute resolution mechanisms.
“They are 41 persons and Chikwado Chukwunta put up an affidavit that he has their consent to file the suit. All of them are now expelled from the party,” he said.
