Sheriff to Appeal Port Harcourt Court Judgment

The judgement of the Federal High Court PH Division further exacerbates the conflicting position between that Division on the one hand and the Lagos and Abuja Divisions on the other.

The Lagos Division by the hand of two different judges, Buba J. and Idris J. made preservative orders respectively on the 14th and 20th of May in respect of matters that challenged the notice of convention issued for election of replacement for incumbents of the NEC and NWC of the PDP whose tenure had not expired.

The PH Division made orders ex parte on the 23rd of May validating a meeting held in PH by some PDP members as a valid National Convention held pursuant to that Notice, challenged in Lagos and validating a "caretaker Committee" installed at the meeting to replace the officers of the PDP NEC and NWC who were fighting for the continuation of their tenure at the Lagos Division.

That ex parte order lapsed on the 9th of June.

The Abuja Division on the 30th of June made interlocutory orders directing that only the ALIMODU SHERRIFF led NEC/NWC could represent the PDP or conduct its affairs including primaries (This confirmed the previous orders of the Lagos Division. This is a specific order concerning PDP primaries for Edo and Ondo States.

Today the PH Division has restored its lapsed orders in a judgment again validating the PH meeting as a "National Convention" of the PDP, legitimizing the "Caretaker Committee" and the removal and replacement of the NEC and NWC of the PDP in what my clients describe as a coup detat.

Clearly there is need for more to be done to determine which of the conflicting orders should be obeyed.

My clients have therefore instructed that the PH judgment be appealed and INEC and PDP restrained from obeying it until the appeal is heard. The processes are currently being completed for filing today.

We advise INEC to note the above and take legal advise so that it may not find itself in contempt of the valid and subsisting orders of the Abuja Division which are direct and specific concerning the Primaries of the PDP in Ondo and Edo States.
PRINCE AJIBOLA OLUYEDE
LEAD COUNSEL TO PDP NEC/NWC

Waste of time and money.