A high court sitting in Cross River state has granted an
interim order restraining Uche Secondus from resuming office as the national
chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
Edem Kooffreh, the presiding judge, gave the order on
Friday, while ruling on a motion ex parte marked HC/240/2021, and filed by
Enang Wani.
The court barred Secondus from presiding over any meeting of
the party until the motion is heard.
“An order of interim injunction restraining the first
defendant (Secondus) from presiding over the national executive committee
meeting of the 2nd Defendant scheduled to hold on Saturday, the 28th of August,
2012 or any subsequent meeting of the national executive committee of the
second defendant and from presiding over any meeting of any organ of the second
defendant or attending any of such meetings of functions in the capacity of
national chairman of the party or in any other manner or form attempting to
forcefully gain entrance into any such meetings or into the premises of the second
defendant as national chairman of the party pending the hearing and
determination of the motion on notice,” the judge ruled.
The court also restrained the PDP from recognising or
granting Secondus the powers due to the office of the national chairman.
“An order of interim injunction restraining the second
defendant, its members, officers and agents from recognising the first
defendant as its national chairman or from according him any of the powers,
rights or privileges due to the holder of the office of the National chairman
of the 2 Defendant pending the hearing and determination of the motion on
notice,” the ruling reads.
Kooffreh also ruled that the notice of the ruling be served
to the parties by substituted means by “pasting at the entrance of the national
secretariat of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) at Wadata Plaza, Plot 1970,
Michael Okpara Street, Wuse Zone 5, Abuja, in the Federal Capital Territory of
Nigeria and by publication in two (2) National Newspapers in Nigeria”.
The crisis rocking the PDP is far from ending as multiple
courts judgment are frustrating peace-making efforts by the party’s leaders.
On Monday, a high court in Rivers state granted an interim
order restraining Secondus from parading himself as the national chairman of
the party.
The party subsequently named Yemi Akinwonmi, deputy national
chairman (south) of the PDP, as the acting chairman of the party on Thursday.
But hours later, a Kebbi state high court ordered the return
of Secondus as national chairman of the party.
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