Aiyedatiwa ignores court order, insists on holding APC state congress

Governor Lucky Aiyedatiwa of Ondo State has vowed that the authorities legislature of the All Progressives Congress (APC) scheduled for Tuesday volition beryllium held contempt an bid of the Federal High Court stopping the process.

Aiyedatiwa, who convened a stakeholders’ gathering astatine the enactment secretariat successful Akure, the authorities capital, connected Monday night, soon aft the ruling of the court, informed immoderate enactment leaders contiguous that the authorities section of the enactment is not astatine war.

The tribunal presided implicit by Justice Toyin Adegoke had issued an ex parte bid restraining the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and the APC from proceeding with the legislature pursuing an exertion filed by aggrieved members of the party.

The authorities section had been faced with a bid of crises which successful the past fewer weeks had turned violent, with 3 radical killed during the ward legislature and the president of the enactment successful the state, Ade Adetimehin, beaten and injured on with immoderate chieftains of the enactment during a stakeholders’ meeting.

While addressing enactment members astatine a gathering up of the exercise, Ai...