Sequel to an application by counsel to the Ali Modu-Sheriff faction
of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), the federal high court sitting
today in Abuja has stopped the convention of the PDP from holding in
Port Harcourt on Wednesday, as planned by the Ahmed Makarfi-led faction
of the party.
According to a report by TheCable News, after hearing submissions from both parties on Tuesday, Justice Okon Abang, said:
“An order of interlocutory injunction is hereby made
restraining the defendants, any of them, their servant agents from
conducting the national convention of PDP and supervising and monitoring
same under any guise or electing any national officer of the defendant
pending the determination of the substantive suit.
“An order of Interlocutory injunction is hereby made
restraining PDP from presenting anybody and sponsoring any person for
election and holding any national convention or conference in the
purpose of electing any national officers of the second defendants.
“An order of Interlocutory injunction is hereby made
restraining INEC from monitoring the national convention of PDP
scheduled for Port Harcourt on 17th August.”
However, he said the judgments of the Port Harcourt division
granting the Makarfi faction a go-ahead still subsists, adding that they
are processes of setting the judgement aside.
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