Kaduna High Court stops PDP LG and state congress



Following the refusal of the National Working Committee of the PDP to attend to the earlier complaint by Party members in respect of the self-help method adopted by the Kaduna State Executive Committee of the PDP in a bid to return by all means,.

which includes the unlawful removal of the Party Membership Register from the 255 Ward Offices to the State Secretariat and withheld same for a period of about six months and only returned to the Wards in a period of less than seven days to the 14th March, 2020 Ward Congress in contravention of the Nomination Procedure enshrined in the PDP Constitution and Guidelines for the 2020 Congresses,

thereby skimmed out and deprived names of the potential members due to be entered into the registers and to be closed in thirty days to the election to exercise their voting right, which renders the Ward Congress as an exercise characterized with deliberate breach of nomination procedures, gross irregularities, lack of transparency and imposition;

subsequently the aggrieved members have approached the High Court of Kaduna State for redress and the Court has today 20th March, 2020 issued Order of Injunction restraining the PDP and Kaduna State Executive Committee from conducting the scheduled LGA and State Congresses, pending the determination of their suit.