PDP VS. APC: THE APPEAL COURT ORDERED AKUME AND 11 OTHERS TO BE SERVED VIA SUBSTITUTED SERVICE.

In Appeal number CA/MK/PE/15/2022, the Court of Appeal sitting in Makurdi approved an application for substituted service of the notice of appeal, record of appeal, and appellant’s brief of argument on Mrs. Regina Akume, Dickson Tarkighir, and Solomon Wombo.

Arc. Asema Achado, Lady Blessing Onuh, Sesoo Gboko, David Ogewu, Adama Adama, and four others are also affected by the order.

The order was issued by a three-member panel chaired by Justice Mohammed Danjuma in response to an ex-parte motion submitted by the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and 11 others through their counsel, Mr. Douglas Pepe, a Senior Advocate.

The appellate court directed that the processes be served on the affected respondents by the Secretary, Legal Adviser, Publicity Secretary, or any other official, agent, or employee of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Benue State chapter at the party’s state headquarters, No. 75 J.S Tarka Way, Makurdi, Benue State.

If the aforementioned officers could not be reached for any reason, the court ordered that “service can be done by leaving the processes at the gate or any prominent place within the premises of No. 75 J.S Tarka Way, Makurdi, Benue State, pending when the said respondents would “file processes in the substantive appeal containing their individual or joint addresses at which further processes will be served on them.”