ALGON Bot Appeals Judgment To Support Alabi’s Leadership.

Incorporated Trustees of the Association of Local Government of Nigeria has appealed the judgment of a Federal High Court in Abuja, which affirmed that Kolade Alabi, the immediate past president of the association is qualified to be president of the association.

The Board of Trustees also filed a motion seeking the stay of execution of the judgment delivered by Justice Inyang Ekwo of the Federal High Court Abuja, adding that, he association last year, and dragged Alabi and seven others to court, while, in the suit, he maintained that Alabi was not qualified to be president when he could not emerged from one of the 774 Local Government Councils in the country.

In their originating summons filed by Bartholomew Opara, said, Alabi is not eligible to be ALGON president as he was not a local government chairman as contemplated by the 1999 Constitution, the Constitution of ALGON and a Supreme Court decision which had touched on the dispute.

He urged Justice Inyang Ekwo to uphold the removal of Alabi by NEC and perpetually restrain him from further parading as such, among other reliefs.

The appeal is predicated on two grounds wherein the appellants argued that “the learned trial Judge erred in law when he delivered judgment marred with outdated technicality in Law and lack of fair hearing to all parties in the suit” also claimed that the learned trial judge erred in law when he delivered his judgment not in accordance with the provisions of Section 36 (1) of the Constitution.