An Abuja Federal High Court presided over by Justice Abdu Kafarati has sacked the factional executive of the Association of Local Governments of Nigeria (ALGON) led by Hon. Ozo Nwabueze Okafor from office.
The court also directed them to stop parading themselves as executives of the association.Ruling in a case of interlocutory injunction dated January 24, 2014, filed by the Registered Trustees of ALGON, Hon. Nwabueze Okafor and Hon. Ibrahim Dikko, against Hon. Akuso Y. Danjuma, Hon. Nse Ntuen and 10 others, the court after examining the reliefs held that the 2nd and 3rd plaintiffs lacked the locus standi to institute the case against the defendants.
The plaintiffs had prayed the court for an order of the restraining the defendants, their agents, privies from acting or parading themselves as the appointed/constituted members of the National Management Committee of ALGON pending the determination of the suit.
However, the plaintiffs filled a 42-paragrapgh preliminary objection part of which was that the court lacked jurisdiction to hear the case and asked the court to strike out the case.
In his ruling, Justice Kafarati said based on evidence before him, “the 2nd-3rd defendants are not members of the registered incorporated trustees of the ALGON and so they do not have the locus standi to (i) institute this action in their names, (ii) institute the action in the ame of the 1st plaintiff. This suit is an abuse of court process and same is hereby dismissed.
The plaintiff’s motion on notice for interlocutory injunction is also dismissed.”