The Caretaker Committee of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, led by Ahmed Markarfi has received the court’s backing.
On Tuesday, a Federal High Court sitting in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, granted an interim injunction restraining the immediate past National Chairman of the PDP, Ali Modu Sheriff from parading himself as national officers of the opposition party.
Sheriff was removed last Saturday at the PDP National Convention held in Port Harcourt.
The court held that Sheriff should not see himself as the party’s officer pending the hearing and determination of the motion on notice brought before it by the PDP.
In a statement personally signed by the presiding judge, Justice A. M. Liman, the court granted a restraining order on any member of the National Working Committee of the PDP who was removed from office by the Party’s National Convention in Port Harcourt from receiving nominations and or submitting names to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) as officers or candidates of the PDP in whatever capacity pending the hearing and determination of the Motion on Notice brought by the Party.
In addition, INEC was restrained by the Court from according or continuing to accord any recognition to Sheriff, Professor Adewale Oladipo or any or all members of the National Working Committee of the PDP removed from office at the Party’s National Convention in Port Harcourt, as officers or organs of the PDP pending the hearing and determination of the Motion on Notice.
