A Federal High Court sittung in Abuja has restrained former National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Uche Secondus from attending the meetings of the party’s National Executive Committee (NEC) and its Board of Trustees (BoT).
The restraint is pending the determination of a motion on notice.
The suit marked: FHC/ABJ/CS/440/2024 and filed by one Titus Jones, a PDP member from Rivers State, has Secondus; the PDP; acting PDP chairman, Umar Damagun; the PDP Secretary, Samuel Anyanwu; the PDP National Executive Committee; the PDP National Working Committee; the PDP Board of Trustees and Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) as the defendants respectively.
Delivering the judgment, Justice Inyang Ekwo also ordered the National Chairman, Secretary of the Party, National Executive Committee and Board of Trustees not to allow Secondus to attend any of its meetings until the suit is determined.
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The judgment dated April 5 read: “Order is hereby made restraining the fourth defendant, his agents, servants, subordinates, officers howsoever described from giving any notice of a meeting of the second defendant be it caucus meetings, meetings of the National Executive Committee (fifth defendant) or Board of Trustees (seventh defendant) or any other meeting however called to the furst defendant who has been suspended from the second defendant pending the hearing and determination of the motion on notice
“Order is hereby made restraining the first defendant from attending any meeting of the second defendant, be it caucus meetings, meetings of the National Executive Committee (fifth defendant) or Board of Trustees (seventh defendant) or any other meeting howsoever described participating in the proceedings, deliberations of any such meeting pending the hearing and determination of the motion on notice.”
Ekwo adjourned the case till April 12, 2024, for motion on notice.
