A Rivers State Excessive Court docket presided over by Justice Charles Wali has stopped the Peoples Democratic Celebration (PDP) from conducting any congress of the celebration within the state.
The order adopted an ex parte order filed by 21 members of the celebration within the state led by Ilaye Sunday Kitchen and Agile Good-looking Ekelechi.
The plaintiffs joined the celebration’s Chairman, Ambassador Iliya Damagun; the Nationwide Secretary, Senator Samuel Anyanwu; Nationwide Organising Secretary, Hon. Umar Bature, and the Nationwide Monetary Secretary, Mr. Daniel Woyegikuro and defendants within the case.
Others joined within the go well with are the management of the celebration within the state, together with Hon. Aaron Chuk Wuemeka, Dr. Benibo George, Solomon Ogbonna, Lenebari Inaania, Enia Harris and ThankGod Owhorji.
They prayed the courtroom to restrain the nationwide management of the celebration from conducting any Congress within the state.
Justice Wali, after listening to the submission of Emeka Ojoko Esq., held, “It’s hereby ordered that an Order of Interim Injunction is hereby made, restraining the first, 2nd and three units of Defendants, their brokers, servants, assign, privies and hirelings from gathering within the 319 wards of the 23 native authorities areas in Rivers State in howsoever and in any respect method for the aim of conducting and/or from conducting the first Defendant’s ward, native authorities or state congresses in Rivers State on the 27″ July 2024, 10” August 2024 and or 315′ August 2024, respectively, or on every other date and place in Rivers State or Nigeria or anyplace and/or from conducting any election of the first Defendant’s ad-hoc delegates or nationwide delegates at any discussion board wheresoever and howsoever, pending the listening to and willpower of the movement on discover for interlocutory injunction already filed herein.
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“That an Order of Interim Injunction is granted directing the 4th set of Defendants, their brokers, servants and privies to implement and perform the order(s) made herein by stopping the first, 2nd and third Defendants from organizing, holding or finishing up the first Defendant’s ward, native authorities and state congresses in Rivers State or anyplace else in Nigeria on the above talked about dates or every other date(s), pending the listening to and willpower of the movement on discover for interlocutory injunction already filed herein.
“It’s additional ordered that the movement on discover and the Originating Summons together with this Order be served on the Respondents forthwith by substituted means to wit: by publication in any nationwide newspaper that’s broadly learn in Rivers State.”
The courtroom additional ordered that the candidates are to pay damages to the respondents as will probably be assessed, ought to the applying be discovered to be frivolous.
The case has been adjourned to August 1, 2024 for listening to on the movement on discover.
