PORT HARCOURT – A Federal High Court sitting in Port Harcourt, Rivers State on Tuesday granted an interim injunction restraining the erstwhile national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Senator Ali Modu Sherrif, and Professor Adewale Oladipo, from parading themselves as national officers of the party pending the hearing and determination of the motion on notice brought before it by the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.
Prompt News recalls that the duo were removed from office at the PDP National Convention held on Saturday May 21, 2016, at Sharks Stadium, Port Harcourt.
The court 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.
Furthermore, 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.
However, the court granted an order mandating INEC to recognize the PDP’s national caretaker committee headed by a former Governor of Kaduna state, Senator Ahmed Makarfi.
The orders that Makarfi-led caretaker committee is to be recognised 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.