In a statement issued on Wednesday, Comrade Ini Ememobong, national publicity secretary of the interim National Working Committee (NWC), said the appellate court invalidated the basis upon which the caretaker committee was recognised.
Ememobong said lawyers representing the faction informed the interim NWC that the court held there were no longer any live issues in the appeal because the substantive dispute centred on the party’s national convention, which had been nullified by the supreme court.
According to the statement, the court also held that the lower court ought not to have recognised the caretaker committee because the issue was not before it.
Part of the statement read: “The court also held, inter alia, that the part of the judgment recognising the Caretaker Committee was not an issue before the court and therefore ought not to have been made in the first place.
“On this score, the court said that the
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