NNPP faction vows to appeal court ruling that affirmed Agbo Major as national chairman

A faction of the New Nigeria Peoples Party, NNPP, has announced that it volition situation the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, High Court ruling that affirmed Dr. Agbo Major arsenic the party’s authentic nationalist chairman.

Factional NNPP National Publicity Secretary, Ladipo Johnson, disclosed this successful a connection connected Wednesday successful Abuja, describing the judgement arsenic a “miscarriage of justice” and “an battle connected democracy”.

Johnson argued that the FCT High Court’s determination amounted to overstepping its jurisdiction, efficaciously sitting connected an entreaty of a substance already earlier the Abia State High Court and the Court of Appeal successful Owerri.

He said: “This enactment flies successful the look of established ineligible hierarchy and the doctrine of look decisis. A radical of expelled members, acting connected behalf of Dr. Boniface Aniebonam, approached the FCT High Court seeking a judicial reappraisal of a substance already nether information by the appellate court.

“Their actions intelligibly disregard the regularisation of sub judice and look aimed astatine destabilising a viable absorption enactment up of the 2027 elections.”

Johnson further criticised the tribunal fo...