Wike’s Loyalists Secure Court Order Against The Dissolution Of PDP Excos
Loyalists of the FCT Minister, Chief Nyesom Wike who are members of the PDP Executives in Rivers State have secured a Court order restraining the Party from dissolving them.
The order which was got from an Abuja Federal High Court also restrained PDP Governors, the National Working Committee, NWC, and Board of Trustees, BoT, of the party from tampering with or dissolving the Executive Committee of the party in Rivers State.
The court further restrained the PDP governors and the party’s NWC and BoT from constituting any interim committee to replace the officers of the party at the state, local government and ward levels in Rivers State.
Justice Peter Lifu who issued the order while delivering ruling in an ex-parte application also ordered the PDP national body and others not to tamper with or dissolve the local government and ward leaderships of the PDP in Rivers State.
He insisted that on no ground shall the tenure of the Rivers PDP executive committees at the state, local government and wards be truncated by the defendants.
Plaintiffs in the ex-parte application marked FHC/ABJ/CS/1396/2024 are Aaron Chukwuemeka, Oye Fubara Igenewari and ThankGod Bekee, who sued on behalf of themselves and state, local government and ward executive committees.
The defendants are PDP, Umar Damagun, Samuel Anyanwu, Umar Bature, NWC, NEC, BOT, INEC and Alhaji Bala Mohammed of the PDP Governors’ Forum as 1st to 9th defendants.
In the ex-parte motion argued on their behalf by Dr Joshua Musa, SAN, the plaintiffs had alleged that the defendants were making clandestine moves to dissolve the legally constituted state, local government and ward executive committees of the PDP in Rivers State.
They also alleged that the defendants including the PDP governors were also attempting to put in place interim committees to replace them to perform the duties and functions of the state, local government and ward executive committees of the party in Rivers State.
The plaintiffs asserted that unless the defendants are restrained from carrying out the unlawful act, they would be made to suffer injustice and losses.
In his ruling, Justice Lifu after perusing the exhibits tendered by the plaintiffs restrained the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, from accepting or recognizing any other person or groups other than those elected at the state, local government and wards elections of the PDP in Rivers State.
Didactic Information Hut reports that hearing in the motion on notice instituted by the plaintiffs against the nine defendants has been fixed for October 4, 2024.
There has been a lingering battle in Rivers State between Gov Sim Fubara and the FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike over who controls the PDP structure in the State.
