Court refuses to stop Ogun PDP primaries NOVEMBER 29, 2014 BY ADE ADESOMOJU Leave a Comment PDP PDP | credits: File copy A Federal High Court in Abuja on Friday rejected an ex parte application filed by a suspended Deputy Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party in Ogun State, Sunday Soledolu, seeking to stop the party from holding the primaries for various elective offices in the state scheduled to commence on Saturday. Rather than granting the application, Justice Ahmed Mohammed ordered the plaintiff to put the defendants to enable them to file their responses in the suit. The court then adjourned till December 4 for hearing. The state chairman of PDP, Chief Adebayo Dayo, the PDP and the Independent National Electoral Commission are the defendants in the suit. The plaintiff’s counsel, Oviemumo Obobolo of Festus Keyamo law firm, had filed the ex parte application seeking an interlocutory injunction restraining the PDP and Dayo from holding primaries for various elective positions pending the determination of the suit. In a 17-paragraph affidavit of urgency deposed to by the plaintiff himself, he averred that he assumed office sometime as the deputy chairman alongside Dayo and other members of his executive committee in 2012 for a four-year time. He said he was suspended on November 6, 2013. He added that the chairman proceeded to make illegal appointment of Leye Odunjo as the acting deputy chairman for the party in the state the following day. He said two other persons had been successfully appointed as deputy chairman of the party in Ogun State. The plaintiff also averred that he had been deprived from exercising the powers of his office as the deputy chairman and was excluded from participating in the just concluded South West Zone congress. punchng/news/court-refuses-to-stop-ogun-pdp-primaries/
Posted on: Sat, 29 Nov 2014 08:48:49 +0000
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