An Abuja Federal High Court has restrained Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Governors, the National Working Committee, NWC, and Board of Trustees, BoT, of the party from tampering with or dissolving the Executive Committee of the party in Rivers State.
DAILY POST reports that members of the Rivers PDP EXCO are loyalists of Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Nyesom Wike. Wike is engaged in a supremacy battle with Rivers State governor, Sim Fubara.
The court also restrained the PDP governors and the party’s NWC and BoT from constituting any interim committee to replace the officers of the party at the state, local government and ward levels in Rivers State.
Justice Peter Lifu issued the order while delivering ruling in an ex-parte application brought before him by the PDP Rivers State Executive Committee led by Aaron Chukwuemeka and his counterparts at the local government and ward levels.
Justice Lifu also ordered the PDP national body and others not to tamper with or dissolve the local government and ward leaderships of the PDP in Rivers State who were elected along with the State Executive Committee during the recent congress of the party.
In an enrolled order obtained by our correspondent, the court ordered that on no ground shall the tenure of the Rivers PDP executive committees at the state, local government and wards be truncated by the defendants
