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Court restrains PDP from removing Damagum as National Chairman

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The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has restrained the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, from appointing or nominating any person to replace Umar Damagum as its Acting National Chairman, pending the determination of a suit that was brought before it by two chieftains of the party.

The court, in a ruling that was delivered by Justice Peter Lifu, made the order on the strength of “an affidavit of extreme urgency” that was filed by the plaintiffs.

Aside from the Originating Summons, the plaintiffs, in a motion ex-parte they filed before the court, sought an interim order to retain Damagum in his position as the Acting National Chairman of the party until their substantive suit is heard and determined. “The Defendants/Respondents by themselves, agents, privies or by any proxy, are hereby in the interim, restrained from according recognition to any person other than Amb. Umar Illiya Damagum as Acting National Chairman of the 1st Defendants/ Respondents or giving effect to or acting upon any document purporting to be signed by the National Chairman or Acting National Chairman of the 1st Defendant without the name and signature of Amb.

The group, led by the lawmaker representing Ideato North/Ideato South Federal Constituency, Imo State, Ikenga Ugochinyere, accused Damagum, who is an ally of the former governor of Rivers State and Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Nyesom Wike, of working in favour of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC.

Source: Law Daily Report (lawdailyreport.net)

 

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