MEDICAL AND HEALTH WORKERS’ UNION OF NIGERIA AND 2 ORS
V.
COMRADE CHRISTOPHER UCHE EZEKIEL AND 6 ORS

The facts of this case simply are that the 2^nd and 3^rd Claimants allege to have been legally elected as Executive State Chairman and union secretary of the 1^st Claimant Union Abia State Council and that the executive tenure in office of particularly the 2^nd Claimant was accordingly till September 2015. The Defendants however, purportedly interrupted with the Claimants’ remaining period in office by claiming to be constituted caretaker committee members of the same 1^st Claimant Union by letter dated 17/1/2014 and therefore sought to usurp the executive functions of the elected officials (2^nd and 3^rd Claimants) including the collection of check off dues from members of the 1^st Claimant Union. The 1^st Defendant was purportedly expelled from the 1^st Claimant Union by letter dated 4/4/2014 for constituting himself illegally as a caretaker Committee Chairman, a position which is accordingly alien to the 1^st Claimant Union Constitution.

Consequently, these Claimants filed a writ of complaint…