Again, another court of coordinate jurisdiction bars Secondus from acting as PDP national chairman while seeking re-election
By Joseph Ayinde
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) crisis took another interesting turn late last night as a high court sitting in cross river state bars the embattled National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Uche Secondus, from acting as the National Chairman of the Party.
Granting an interim order in the suit No HC/240/2021, the court restrained him from assuming the office of National Chairman of the 2nd Defendant, while seeking re-election to the office of the National Chairman of the 2nd Defendant pending the hearing and determination of the motion on notice.
According to the Order signed by the Registrar Ekei. E.Kooffreh issued on Friday and sighted by TheNigerialawyer(TNL), the court further restrained Secondus from presiding over the National Executive Committee meeting of the 2nd Defendant scheduled to hold on Saturday, the 28th of August, 2021, or any subsequent meeting of the National Executive Committee of the PDP and from presiding over any meeting of the organ of the PDP or attending any such meetings or 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 any premises of the PDP as the National Chairman of the Party pending the hearing and determination of the motion on notice.
“An ORDER OF INTERM INJUNCTION restraining the 1st Defendant from acting or purporting to act or to parade himself in any manner howsoever as the National Chairman of the 2nd Defendant having been restrained from doing so by a court of competent jurisdiction pending the hearing and determination of the motion on notice.”
The motion ex parte was filed by Enang Kanum Wani while the second Defendant in this suit is the People Democratic Party(PDP).
The PDP NEC is expected to start at 12 noon Saturday at the National Secretariat of the party.
Secondus had obtained a Kebbi High Court order to reinstate him as national chairman last Thursday following an earlier injunction obtained against him from a Rivers State High Court.
The Rivers High Court interim order in suit No HC/240/2021, specifically restrained Secondus from assuming the office of National Chairman of the 2nd Defendant, (Peoples Democratic Party, PDP).
He was also specifically barred from the NEC meeting holding on Saturday.
The NEC meeting is expected to end the Secondus era with the affirmation of plans for the National Convention now agreed to hold in October.
