Suspense on whether the National convention of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, fixed for Saturday, September 30, will hold or not is at fever pitch, following the decision by the Court of Appeal sitting in Port Harcourt the Rivers State capital, to hear and rule on the motion for an interim order on October 28.
The three-man appeal panel led by Justice Haruna Simon Tsammani, had reserved its decision on a motion filed by the former Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Prince Uche Secondus, praying the court for an order suspending the party’s convention, when the matter came up today.
Secondus had through his lawyer, Payo Oyetubo, urged the court to suspend the October, 30th and 31st National Convention of the party and declare him the right person to preside over the convention.
Six other members of the party, drew the attention of the court on their application for joinder and their request was not opposed by the lawyer to Secondus. The request was subsequently granted by the three-man panel of the court.
But, the defendants’ lawyers including those who joined in the suit opposed the motion for Interim injunction and asked for time to respond to the process.
The Court had after listening to the arguments from the parties, ordered lawyer to the plaintiff to serve the process on the defendants lawyers within 24 hours.
Tsammani also urged respondents’ lawyers to respond within 24 hours and adjourned the matter till 28th of October, for hearing and possible ruling on the motion.
