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, Senator Ali Modu Sheriff, and
the National Secretary, Prof. Adewale Oladipo, from parading themselves
as national officers of the party.
Sheriff and Oladipo were removed from office at the PDP National Convention held on Saturday in Port Harcourt, Rivers State.
The ruling of the court on Tuesday followed the motion on notice brought before it by the PDP.
The court, presided over by Justice A.M. Liman, said pending the determination of the motion on notice, Sheriff and Oladipo should not parade themselves as national officers of the party.
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 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 Justice Liman from according or continuing to accord any recognition to Sheriff 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 court then directed INEC to recognise the Caretaker Committee of the PDP endorsed at the National Convention, headed by Senator Ahmed Markarfi, a former Governor of Kaduna State.
It said INEC should recognise the Makarfi committee in all matters pertaining the conduct of primary elections for political offices and the submission of the PDP list of candidates for any election to be conducted by INEC pending the hearing and determination of the Motion on Notice.
