FollowingTuesday's decision of the Federal High court
sitting in Abuja to stop the convention of the PDP from holding in Port
Harcourt on Wednesday, armed mobile policemen have taken over Sharks
Stadium, venue of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) convention, in Port
Harcourt, Rivers state.
The men arrived the venue as early as 8am preventing from party
members from entering the street leading to the stadium, while
pedestrians were being questioned.
On Tuesday, Justice Okon Abang had ordered the convention to be stopped through a ruling. He 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.”
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