Peace is on the way for factionalised opposition PDP as a Federal
High Court sitting in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, has
granted an interim injunction restraining the immediate past national
chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Senator Ali Modu
Sherrif, and Professor Adewale Oladipo who were removed from office at
the PDP National Convention held on Saturday May 21, 2016, from
parading themselves as national officers of the party pending the
hearing and determination of the motion on notice brought before it by
the party.
The court on Tuesday, May 24, 2016 also granted a restraining order on
any member of the National Working Committee of the PDP who was
removed from office by the party’s national convention in Port
Harcourt from receiving nominations and or submitting names to the
Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) as officers or
candidates of the PDP in whatever capacity pending the hearing and
determination of the motion on notice brought by the party.
In addition, INEC was restrained by the court from according or
continuing to accord any recognition to Sherrif and Oladipo or any or
all members of the national working committee of the PDP removed from
office at the party’s national convention in Port Harcourt, as
officers or organs of the PDP pending the hearing and determination of
the motion on notice.
The national caretaker committee of the PDP headed by Senator Ahmed
Markarfi, former governor of Kaduna State, also got a boost with an
order of the court mandating INEC to recognise it in all matters
pertaining the conduct of primary elections for political offices and
the submission of the PDP List of candidates for any elections to be
conducted by INEC pending the hearing and determination of the Motion
on notice.
