PDP leadership crisis: Appeal Court nullifies Ibadan convention
BY STEPHEN GBADAMOSI
The Court of Appeal in Abuja has upheld the judgment of the Federal High Court Abuja delivered by justice James Omotosho which stopped the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)’s November 15 and 16 national convention held in Ibadan, Oyo State that produced Tanimu Turaki, as the national chairman of the party.
A three-member panel of the appellate court, chaired by Mohammed Danjuma, agreed with the lower court that there was no proper conduct of congresses before the convention.
The also dismissed the argument of Turaki faction that the issues bordered on internal affairs of the party.
Earlier in the judgment, the panel dismissed the argument of the PDP faction led by Tanimu Turaki that the Federal High Court judge, Justice James Omotosho, lacked jurisdiction to hear the suit against the Ibadan convention on the grounds that the issues bordered on internal affairs of the party.
The preliminary objections raised by the respondents, faction loyal to the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, that Chris Uche was not a proper legal counsel to represent PDP has been dismissed by the court on the grounds that the former PDP National Legal Adviser, Kamaldeen Ajibade, was suspended by the party’s National Working Committee (NWC).
