{"id":70733,"date":"2023-04-06T21:13:30","date_gmt":"2023-04-06T20:13:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/?p=70733"},"modified":"2023-04-06T21:13:30","modified_gmt":"2023-04-06T20:13:30","slug":"court-vacates-its-interim-orders-against-seplat-energy-ceo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/court-vacates-its-interim-orders-against-seplat-energy-ceo\/","title":{"rendered":"Court Vacates Its Interim Orders Against Seplat Energy, CEO"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"left\">Seplat Energy announces that today, the Federal High Court sitting in Lagos vacated the ex parte Interim Orders against Seplat, its CEO and its Board Chairman, including the orders that restrained the Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Roger Brown from participating in the running of the Company.<\/div>\n<div align=\"left\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The case has been adjourned to May 16, 2023, to continue the hearing.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div align=\"left\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The ex parte Interim Orders were in relation to a court petition filed by 5 persons who claim to be minority shareholders of the Company, collectively holding 161 units of shares.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div align=\"left\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The Company maintains that the petition lacks proper basis and is premised on false allegations.<\/p><div data-ad-id=\"32665\" style=\"text-align:center; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px;float:none;\" class=\"afw afw_ad_image afw_ad afwadid-32665  \">\r\n                                                            <div style=\"font-size:10px;text-align:center;color:#cccccc;\">Advertisement<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.accessbankplc.com\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"auto\" max-width=\"100%\" src=\"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Banner-1.jpg\"><\/a>\r\n                                                                        \r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div align=\"left\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Seplat Energy chairman, Basil Omiyi said the company remains confident that the judicial process will address the circumstances appropriately.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div align=\"left\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cThe Company continues to engage with the Ministry of Interior,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/p><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seplat Energy announces that today, the Federal High Court sitting in Lagos vacated the ex parte Interim Orders against Seplat, its CEO and its Board Chairman, including the orders that restrained the Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Roger Brown from participating in the running of the Company.<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":59697,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,17],"tags":[9184],"coauthors":[2391],"class_list":["post-70733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-business","category-news","tag-seplat-energy"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v18.9 - 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