A Court of Appeal, sitting in Port-Harcourt, the Rivers State capital will today rule on an application brought by suspended National Chairman of the party, Prince Uche Secondus, seeking to stop the national convention schedule to hold this weekend.
The court presided over by a three-man panel, led by Justice Haruna Tsammani, had after hearing the submissions by parties to the suit, fixed today to deliver ruling on the matter.
Multiple court orders had been issued against Secondus, resulting in his suspension, and Yemi Akinwonmi, deputy national chairman (South), was appointed as his replacement.
Subsequently, a Rivers State High Court issued an interim order restraining Secondus from parading himself as the chairman of the party.
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On October 18, Secondus said he would not withdraw the suit challenging his removal, insisting that the party should stop preparations for the convention, pending the hearing of his case at the Court of Appeal.
The Appellate court however struck out a separate but related appeal seeking to override an interim order made by the Rivers State High Court, on August 22, 2021, restraining Prince Uche Secondus, from parading himself as the National Chairman and member of the Peoples Democratic Party, stating that the appeal was an academic exercise.
It also struck out another appeal marked CA/PH/340, filed by the PDP on the same subject matter, after the party’s new counsel, I.S. Ami, sought for its withdrawal in pursuance to the provisions of order 11, rule 5 of the rules of the Court of Appeal.
