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The Federal High Court in Port Harcourt, Rivers State has struck out a suit challenging the competence of the Governor Mai Mala Buni-led Caretaker Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee (CECPC) of the All Progressives Congress (APC). Justice Pheobe Ayua struck out the name of the APC National Chairman, the National Working Committee (NWC) and CECPC National Secretary as non-juristic persons. The court held that the action was non-justiciable and incurably incompetent, noting that the substratum of the matter bordered on the internal affairs of the ruling APC. The APC is in crisis, with leaders divided into power blocs ahead of the 2023 elections, but Commissioner for Information and Communications in Kogi State, Kingsley Fanwo, has dismissed the notion of a crisis. He believes the Buni leadership has done well in stabilising the party and attracting political heavyweights.

The Federal High Court in Port Harcourt, Rivers State has struck out a suit challenging the competence of the Governor Mai Mala Buni-led Caretaker Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee (CECPC) of the All Progressives Congress (APC). Justice Pheobe Ayua struck out the name of the APC National Chairman, the National Working Committee (NWC) and CECPC National Secretary as non-juristic persons. The court held that the action was non-justiciable and incurably incompetent, noting that the substratum of the matter bordered on the internal affairs of the ruling APC. The APC is in crisis, with leaders divided into power blocs ahead of the 2023 elections, but Commissioner for Information and Communications in Kogi State, Kingsley Fanwo, has dismissed the notion of a crisis. He believes the Buni leadership has done well in stabilising the party and attracting political heavyweights.

Dr. Monday Ubani, the Nigerian Bar Association's second Vice President and Chairman of NBA-SPIDEL, has filed a lawsuit against the Federal Government and two others in Lagos over forced vaccination of civil servants. Ubani argues that the directive given by Mustapha to all Federal Civil Servants in Nigeria, requiring proof of vaccination or a negative COVID-19 PCR test result within 72 hours, violates their constitutional rights to life, dignity, privacy, freedom from discrimination, freedom of thought, conscience, and religion. Ubani seeks redress and an order of perpetual injunction to prevent the directive from being implemented. He argues that every person has a constitutional right to object to medical treatment and that any directive for compulsory vaccination is unconstitutional. He also calls for the government to allow citizens to vaccinate freely and emphasizes that a constitutional right should not be compromised for effective public health intervention. Ubani believes that the best policy for the country is not to lower the guards in preventive measures, and any directive on compulsory vaccination is immature, needless, and unacceptable.