A Benue state high court in Gboko has dismissed a suit
seeking to set aside the suspension of Iyorchia Ayu as a member of the Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP).
Delivering a ruling on Thursday, D.M Igyuse, the presiding
judge, described the suit as an abuse of the court process.
The case was filed by one Nongo Ordue on behalf of the
17-member executive of Ayu’s Igyorov council ward of Gboko LGA.
Aside from seeking to void the suspension, the plaintiff also asked the court to reinstate Ayu as the national chairman of the PDP.
However, Clement Mue, counsel to the PDP, submitted that the
suit constituted an abuse of the court process.
Mue said a similar case filed before a high court in Makurdi
had sufficiently addressed the issues raised by the plaintiff.
In the suit marked MHC/85/2023 cited by the PDP lawyer,
Maurice Ikpambese, a high court judge, held that Ayu could no longer hold the
office as the national chairman having lost his membership of the party at his
ward.
Mue informed the court that Ayu had since filed an appeal
against the decision which is yet to be determined.
He said hearing and determining the present suit would
amount to sitting on an appeal against the earlier decision of the court.
In his judgment, Igyuse pointed out that the plaintiffs had
filed a similar claim in a suit marked GHC/36/2023 between themselves as
plaintiffs, including Ayu who was the 18th complainant.
The judge noted that the said suit was struck out by the
high court 3, Gboko, on June 27.
Consequently, the judge dismissed the case, describing it as
“the worst form of abuse of court process”.
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