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The National Youth Council of Nigeria (NYCN) has dismissed reports of a purported withdrawal of its registration certificate and the assignment of an interim absorption squad by the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) and the Federal Ministry of Youth Development, describing the determination arsenic unlawful and contemptuous of a subsisting tribunal judgement.
In a connection signed by its President and Chairman of the Board of Trustees, Ambassador Sukubo Sara-Igbe Sukubo, the Council reaffirmed that his enactment remains the legally recognised and duly constituted authorization of the NYCN.
Sukubo recalled that the Federal High Court successful Abuja, presided implicit by Justice D.U. Okorowo, had successful Suit No. FHC/ABJ/CS/1553/2022 affirmed the legitimacy of the NYCN’s incorporation certificate and upheld his enactment arsenic the valid 1 nether law.
According to him, the aforesaid substance is present earlier the Court of Appeal successful Appeal No. CA/ABJ/CV/13081/2023, wherever some the CAC and the Ministry of Youth Development are parties. He argued that immoderate enactment by the agencies to revoke the council’s registration oregon instal an interim squad amounts to “a nonstop affront to judicial authority.
“The instrumentality is wide that nary individual, group, oregon authorities bureau has the powerfulness to override the decisions of a competent tribunal of law. What we are seeing is simply a classical lawsuit of resorting to self-help,” Sukubo said.
The NYCN, which serves arsenic the umbrella assemblage for younker organisations crossed Nigeria, urged its members nationwide to disregard what it called “false publications and amerciable pronouncements” regarding a enactment change.
Sukubo emphasised that the judgement of Justice Okorowo remains valid and binding until overturned by a higher court, insisting that his enactment “remains sacrosanct and morganatic successful some instrumentality and fact.”
He further called connected Nigerian youths to stay calm and law-abiding, assuring them that the assembly volition proceed to align with the Renewed Hope Agenda of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, aimed astatine gathering “a stronger, united, and progressive younker movement.”
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