…postpones hearing till October 16

A High Court of the Federal Capital Territory has issued an order restraining some factional leaders of the National Youth Council of Nigeria (NYCN) from proceeding with the group’ planned election.

The alleged factional leaders of the NYCN – Ademola Gbenga, Okechukwu Nnamene, Abel Abaji, Alex Allen Akin, and Hassan Mamman – were said to have planned the said election for October 7.

Justice J. E. Obanor issued the order on October 6 while ruling on a motion by the Incorporated Trustees of the NYCN and Ambassador Sukubo Sara-Igbe Sukubo, representing the existing leadership of the group.

Justice Obanor restrained the defendants from conducting the election pending the determination of the substantive suit, marked: FCT/HC/CV/3803/2025

The judge ordered the Inspector General of Police (IGP) and the Department of State Services (DSS) to enforce the court’s order.

Listed as defendants in the suit are Ademola Gbenga, Okechukwu Nnamene, Abel Abaji, and Comr. Alex Allen Akin, Hassan Mamman, the IGP, and the DSS.

The plaintiffs stated, in a supporting affidavit, that the NYCN, during its National Elective Convention held in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, from September 20 to 22, re-elected Ambassador Sukubo Sara-Igbe Sukubo as President alongside other executives.

Allegedly dissatisfied with the Sukubo-led leadership, Gbenga and others purportedly formed a parallel group and planned to conduct another election in Abuja on October 7. (VANGUARD)