Court Grants Substituted Means To Serve Chairman Of APP As 6 Other Persons Lay Claims To Leadership Of The Party

A Federal High Court sitting in Port Harcourt has granted an ex parte order to serve the Rivers State chairman of the Action People’s Party, APP, Sunny Wokekoro, the 23 chairmanship candidates of APP in the upcoming Saturday election, and the Rivers State Independent Electoral Commission, RSIEC, through substituted means.

Hart Badom, Destiny Omereji, and four others are in court seeking the reinstatement of Badom as the legitimate State Chairman of APP, while calling for the removal of Sunny Wokekoro from the position.

The plaintiffs are also challenging the legitimacy of the 23 chairmanship candidates, questioning when they became members of the APP in the state.

They are seeking a declaration that all actions taken by Wokekoro be considered null and void.

Reports that when the case was mentioned, the plaintiffs’ counsel, Excel Omeghara, applied for an ex parte motion to serve the defendants through substituted means, a request that was granted by the presiding judge, Justice Emmanuel Obele.