The National Working Committee (NWC) of the Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP) and its special National Convention Planning Committee
were on friday served with certified copies of the order of an Abuja High Court
which restrained the party from proceeding with its mini-national convention
slated for August 31.
A source at the party’s National
Secretariat in Abuja told the the Saturday Tribune that following this
development, the Alhaji Bamanga Tukur led NWC hurriedly convened and emergency
meeting of the body for a way forward.
Though no official statement was
issued at the end of the meeting, it was gathered that it was resolved that its
legal team was mandated to study the court order and advise on what action to
be taken while it was always resolved the legal team should also proceed to the
appeal court on Monday to vacate the order to enable the Professor Jerry
Gana-led committee to continue with its assignment as planned.
“I can confirm to you that the
leadership of the party has been served with the Court order and the NWC is
handling the matter carefully, as a law abiding Party,I think the Party will be
approaching the Court of Appeal on Monday to vacate the Order. Since the party
had been served,we have to obey the order,that had been our practice in the
past,there is no cause for alarm”,our source explained.
When contacted,the Acting National
Publicity Secretary of the Party,Barrister Tony Okeke confirmed that the party
had received a copy of the order and had referred to its legal team to study
for further action.
Justice Sulieman Belgore had on
Thursday stopped the party from proceeding with the special convention pending
the determination of a suit pending before it on the matter.
Aggrieved three members of the
party,Abba Yale, Yahaya Sule and Bashir Maigudu had approached the court to
challenge the process of election of former members of the NWC of the Party and
urged the court to nullify the elections of the members in view of the report
of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC which declared that the process
through which they were elected violated the party’s constitution.
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