A Rivers State High Court sitting in Port Harcourt has restrained the ward, local government and state executive committees of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) led by the Chairman, Aaron Chukwuemeka, from parading themselves as executive members of the party in the State.
The presiding judge, Justice Stephen Jumbo, gave the restraining order while ruling on interlocutory injunction filed by two Port Harcourt-based legal practitioners, Edwin Woko, Love Otuonye and two others.
Justice Jumbo ruled that the ward, local government and state congresses of PDP had no locus standi and were invalid from the onset.
The applicants had sought an order setting aside as a nullity the congresses conducted in 319 wards and 23 local government areas of the state on the 27th of July, 10th of August and 31st of August.
The applicants had claimed that the congresses were allegedly done in flagrant disobedience to the provision of orders of Rivers State High Court issued on the 16th of July 2024, which stopped the conduct of the congresses pending the hearing and determination of an ol already-filled originating summons.
They wanted an order restraining Chukwuemeka and others named as second set of defendants in the suit from acting, representing or parading themselves as members of the state executives committee or officers of the PDP.
