Admin l Wednesday, October 25, 2017
IKOYI, Lagos, Nigeria – A Federal high court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos was today asked to stop NNPC Staff Cooperative Society from going ahead with election scheduled to hold on Thursday 26th, October 2017.
The aggrieved members deposed to affidavit that they want the election stopped due to introduction of rules unknown to the constitution governing election of members into executive office.
In an 18 paragraph affidavits deposed to by Yisau Ilori in a suit marked FHC/L/SC/1617/2017, the plaintiff alleged that some of the members who qualified to run for chairmanship position of the cooperative base on an existing guideline upon which the interested member picked up a nomination form were disqualified by introduction of another guidelines just a day before the election.
According to the affidavit, the development currently present the current chairman as the only candidate for the election which he deemed inimical to the association.
Also joined in the suit are the Lagos State Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Cooperative, NNPC Cooperative Society and one Nura Bello who is Chairman Electoral Committee of the NNPC Staff Cooperative Multi purpose Society Limited.
The suit has been assigned to justice Saliu Saidu and tomorrow, Thursday, October 26, has been fixed for the hearing of the motion
