A Senior District Court III sitting in Lafia, Nasarawa State yesterday vacated an earlier order barring the state chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Aliyu Bello, from parading himself as a member of the party or performing any official duties as chairman.
LEADERSHIP recalls that the court had on Thursday ordered Bello to stop performing the duties of the state chairman of the party pending the outcome of a lawsuit brought by some APC members.
The order followed a motion said to have emanated from the chairman of the APC in the Gayam Ward of Lafia local government area of the state, Ibrahim Iliyasu.
The Iliyasu-led excecutive had earlier suspended Bello from the party over alleged anti-party activities.
However, when Bello failed to step down, Iliyasu approached the Senior District Court III sitting in Lafia through his counsel where he obtained an order against Bello.
But the court, in an exparte motion dated and filed on July 4 by counsel to Bello, I. Y. Iga Esq, invalidated the earlier order.
“Upon consideration of the exparte motion dated and filed on July 4, 2025 by I. Y. Iga Esq, counsel to the defendant/applicant, supported by a 20-paragraph affidavit duly deposed by Hon Aliyu Bello, the defendant/applicant of Lafia, Nasarawa State with exhibits attached, and having listened to the application made by the defendant/applicant’s counsel, the application is granted as prayed.
“It is hereby ordered as follows: An order of this Hon. Court is granted setting aside its earlier order made on the 3rd day of July, 2025 which restrained the defendant/applicant (HON Aliyu Bello) from parading himself as the chairman All Progressives Congress (APC), in Nasarawa State, pending the hearing and determination of the motion on notice,” the court said.
