PDP: Court bars NEC, BoT from sacking acting National Chair
by Ganiyu Mubarak · The Eagle OnlineJustice Peter Lifu of the Federal High Court in Abuja has restrained the National Executive Committee and Board of Trustees of the Peoples Democratic Party from removing Umar Damagum as the Acting National Chairman of the party.
The court ordered on Thursday that no other person must be recognised as PDP national chairman other than Damagum.
It said this should be until the national convention of the party scheduled for December next year.
Justice Lifu issued the restraining order against the PDP NEC, BoT, and others while delivering judgment in a suit instituted against them by Senator Umar El-Gash Maina.
The judge held that in line with Articles 42, 47, and 67 of PDP, it is only at the national convention of the party that national officers can be elected.
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He said that PDP members are bound by the constitution of the party and as such must always act in line with the provisions and obedience to the party’s law.
The plaintiff, who claimed to be chairman of PDP in Yobe State, had instituted the suit against PDP and eight others alleging that some stakeholders of the party have been holding clandestine meetings to forcefully remove Damagum from office in gross violation of the party’s constitution.
He said that a former Deputy Governor of Kogi State, Phillip Salawu, was being pushed forward as a replacement for Damagun by the stakeholders.
Maina claimed that upon becoming aware of the plan, two separate letters complaining against the clandestine meetings were delivered to the National Secretary of the party, Samuel Anyanwu, and that despite the acknowledgment of the two letters, the National Secretary and BoT members have never deemed it fit to act on the letters and their claims.
In the suit instituted on his behalf by Joshua Musa, who is a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, the plaintiff therefore prayed the court to invoke articles 45, 47, and 67 of the PDP constitution to stop the move to replace Damagum as the acting national chairman.
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