The federal high court in Akure, the Ondo state capital, has restrained the All Progressives Congress (APC) from conducting its state congress scheduled for Tuesday, March 3.
Toyin Adegoke, the presiding judge, issued the order on Monday while ruling on an ex parte application filed by Adedayo Adedeji, a senior advocate of Nigeria (SAN), on behalf of aggrieved party members led by Lawrence Adebayo and 7,427 others.
Adegoke ruled that the APC should not “conduct, hold, proceed with or conclude any state congress in Ondo State” pending the hearing and determination of a motion on notice for an interlocutory injunction.
The judge also restrained the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and the APC from “acknowledging, accepting, recognising or giving effect to the purported ward and local government congresses conducted on February 18 and 21, 2026, and the proposed state congress scheduled for March 3, 2026, or any other date”.
He fixed March 26 as the date for the hearing of the case.
The judgement comes days after the ward congresses of the APC in Ondo state were marred with violence.
On February 17, suspected armed thugs attacked Ade Adetimehin, the caretaker chairman of the APC, during a stakeholders’ meeting at the party’s secretariat in Akure, Ondo state capital.
Adetimehin accused members of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW), allegedly led by Ademola Odudu, the chairman, of carrying out the attack on the orders of Lucky Aiyedatiwa, governor of Ondo.
However, Aiyedatiwa denied the allegation.
On February 18, two persons were killed and five others injured during the APC ward congress in Odode-Idanre, the headquarters of Idanre LGA.
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