Judgement Day:

Appearance for the 2nd defendant, PDP is led Barr Emmanuel Enoidem while Sir Uwemedimo Nwoko appears for the 3rd to 331st defendants who are the Adhoc delegates.
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Rulings on Interlocutory Applications:

1. Stay of Execution Order sought by the 2nd defendant, PDP sustained by the Court.

2. On Plaintiff’s application for the court to nullify the primaries of the PDP in Akwa Ibom State, as a violation of Status Quo ante Bellum order of the court; the court dismissed the application saying it was unnecessary since the Stay of Execution Order sought by the 2nd defendant, PDP has already been granted by the Court. “It will amount to giving in one hand and taking from the other”, Justice Obiora Egwatu posited.
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Breaking:

Ahmed Raji, SAN, Plaintiff’s Counsel missing on judgement day.
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According to the Judge, The defendants insisted that the plaintiffs did not buy expression of interests and there is no such records in the party office that the plaintiffs bought forms for the primaries. The defendants maintained that the cleared candidates where those who bought forms for the Congress and there was no screening exercise. They also argued that if the plaintiffs had bought forms for the congress, they would have gone to their wards to participate in the congress. They argued further that the defendants won the congress in 329 wards through open balloting, as conducted by the Ward congress committee headed by Ibrahim Umar .
The also argued that Gamaliel Abubakar chaired appeal panel received four complaints after the congress from members of the party and subsequently dismissed them on the basis of lacking in merit.

They also maintained that they were ready to present over 7000 witnesses and more than 300 video evidences to attest that the congress was fair.

Final Judgment:

COURT RULES THAT IT LACKS JURISDICTION AND UPHOLDS PRELIM OBJECTIONS BY DEFENDANTS

On the issue of the congress being the internal affairs of the party. The court held that the matter was non justiciable as the matter was an internal matter of the 2nd defendant. It agreed that the plaintiffs did exhaust the internal mechanism of the party before commencing the suit. But rules that the court lacks jurisdiction to entertain the suit.

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