The court of appeal has upheld the caretaker committee of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) under the leadership of Ahmed Makarfi, describing the faction led by Ali Modu Sheriff as illegal.

In a judgement on Wednesday, the panel of judges led by Ibrahim Saulawa, set aside the ruling of Okon Abang, a judge of the federal high court Abuja, who declared Makarfi’s faction as “illegal”.

In a ruling on June 29, Abang ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) not to recognise any candidate from the Markafi faction.

The judge held that there were two subsisting court orders which recognised Ali Modu Sheriff-led PDP as the authentic representation of the party.

He said that the Makarfi faction only ran to get another ruling after two orders that favoured Sheriff had been given by the court.
However at the appellate court on Wednesday, the three-man panel of judges, while setting aside the judgement described Abang’s ruling as “displaced, most troubling decision of the lower court.”

“It is a gross abuse of section 36 (1) of the constitution, particularly the right to fair hearing,” the panel of judges held.
The panel of judges said while it was unfair that the Makarfi faction of the PDP was not heard at the lower court, the judge did not have the grounds to which he made his ruling on.

Furthermore, the judges said “what was done at the lower court was a charade and a fraud”.
The Makarfi-led faction was recognised by the law and consequently, INEC, at the Edo state gubernatorial election, and most recently, for the Ondo governorship election.

danot1030:
op you still carry pdp matter for head? Very soon na only you go waka come in pdp. Already Fayose, the most ferocious warrior in pdp planning his exit.

BERNIMOORE:
yeah, he will join a mega party that will beat APC because

there seem no fair judgement for PDP again, jimoh ibrahim openly says that what happen in the court was a charade, he indicts justice Abang and even appeal court ruled that Abang ruling was 'fraudulent' yet No Dss is doing anything to him, but something is so sure,

Fayose will never join APC according to him

danot1030:
I really look forward to another mega party but pdp should extinct, that party has brought so much pain encouraged by its corrupt policies.

WILLYBABS:
I talk my own ooooo...this guy na thief, don't try and buy data from him, he scammed me. I've informed my baba already, he's a living corpse...Mods, block him, not me.