By Suleiman Anyalewechi
A Federal Capital Territory, High Court on Thursday, December 18 ,2025, granted an interim injunction restraining parties in All Progressive Congress, APC, Cross River State, Chapter leadership crisis and the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, from giving effect to the purported removal from office of the Chairman of the party Hon Alphonsus Ogar Eba.
The Source reports that the crisis of confidence which rocked the State APC on November 4 ,2025 came to a head with about 30 out of the 32-member State Working Committee SWC voting in Otufam Ojogu after impeaching Eba as chairman.
They alleged high-handedness, diversion of party funds, and anti-party activities as some of the reasons for removing Eba as the state chairman.
Ruling on an ex-parte application brought before the court, the Judge, Hon Justice J. E Obanor, issued an interim order barring the APC, the newly elected chairman Ojogu ,and the INEC from removing ,or sidelining Eba from his position as the APC Chairman or the party’s activities pending the hearing and determination of the motion on notice.
Embattled Eba had in the application filed through his Counsel,Ayotunde Ogunleye, prayed the Court to grant him protection from what he described as illegal November 4, 2025 resolution purporting to have removed him from office as the Cross River state APC chairman..
He argued that the said unlawful resolution had sought to prevent him from exercising his legitimate duties as the APC Chairman in Cross River State .
Consequently, in granting the reliefs sought, the Court restrained the respondents either by themselves, their agents or privies, from giving effect to, or continuing to give effect to the said resolution, particularly any action that would prevent Eba from performing his responsibilities as the Chairman of the APC , pending the hearing and determination of the motion on notice before the court .
The Court also restrained the respondents from preventing the applicant from attending the APC, National Executive Council, NEC, meeting billed for Friday December 19, 2025, in addition to any other party activities during the subsistence of his tenure or any extension as may be granted by APC, NEC.
Justice Obanor similarly barred the respondents from engaging, initiating or deliberating on, or taking any actions capable of adversely affecting Eba in performing his duties as the chairman of the APC in the state pending the hearing and determination of the substantive suit which has been fixed for hearing on January 22 ,2026.
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