The Appeal Court sitting in Port Harcourt will tomorrow, Thursday, decide the fate of the national convention of the Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP), slated for October 30th and 31st, 2021.
This is even as the appellate court has fixed Thursday, October 28, 2021 to hear and rule on a motion for Interim order of injunction brought by former suspended PDP national chairman, Uche Secondus.
Secondus through his counsel, Tayo Oyetibo, asked the court to suspend the convention, arguing that the manner of his client’s removal from office is a violation of the party’s constitution.
When the matter was mentioned in court, six other members of the PDP drew the attention of the court on their application for joinder which was not opposed by counsel to Secondus.
Their request was subsequently granted by the three-man panel of the appeal court.
The defense counsel, including those who joined in the suit however, opposed to the motion for Interim injunction by Secondus’ counsel seeking to stop the PDP forthcoming national convention and asked for time to respond to the process.
The 3-man appeal panel led by Justice Haruna Simon Tsammani after listening to the argument from the parties, ordered counsel to the plaintiff to “serve the process to the defendant’s counsel within twenty-four hours while respondents counsels should similarly respond within twenty-four hours.
He adjourned the matter to Thursday, 28th of October, for hearing and possible ruling on the motion.
Addressing newsmen earlier at the party’s secretariat, chairman of the accreditation sub-committee and governor of Delta State, Ifeanyi Okowa said the committee would do everything possible to get the accreditation process right.
Meanwhile, the Secretary to the convention planning committee and governor of Oyo State, Engr. Seyi Makinde, has described party members who took the PDP to court to stop the convention as misguided, saying the convention will go on as planned.
According to a statement signed by Makinde, party members have nothing to fear concerning the convention.
