Court sacks Sheriff, others, recognizes Markarfi as National Chair of party

Court sacks Sheriff, others, recognizes Markarfi as National Chair of party

Ali modu sheriffPeace is on the way for factionalised opposition PDP as a  Federal

High Court sitting in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, has

granted an interim injunction restraining the immediate past national

chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Senator Ali Modu

Sherrif, and Professor Adewale Oladipo who were removed from office at

the PDP National Convention held on Saturday May 21, 2016, from

parading themselves as national officers of the party pending the

hearing and determination of the motion on notice brought before it by

the party.

The court on Tuesday, May 24, 2016 also granted a restraining order on

any member of the National Working Committee of the PDP who was

removed from office by the party’s national convention in Port

Harcourt from receiving nominations and or submitting names to the

Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) as officers or

candidates of the PDP in whatever capacity pending the hearing and

determination of the motion on notice brought by the party.

In addition, INEC was restrained by the court from according or

continuing to accord any recognition to Sherrif and Oladipo or any or

all members of the national working committee of the PDP removed from

office at the party’s national convention in Port Harcourt, as

officers or organs of the PDP pending the hearing and determination of

the motion on notice.

The national caretaker committee of the PDP headed by Senator Ahmed

Markarfi, former governor of Kaduna State, also got a boost with an

order of the court mandating INEC to recognise it in all matters

pertaining the conduct of primary elections for political offices and

the submission of the PDP List of candidates for any elections to be

conducted by INEC pending the hearing and determination of the Motion

on notice.