I remain PDP Chairman- Sheriff insists!
Thu Jun 02, 2016 09:57:am Politics
2.6K By Buchi Obichie
Senator Ali Modu Sheriff has insisted to a Federal High Court in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, that he remained the National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.
Sheriff described the inaugurated National Caretaker Committee headed by Senator Ahmed Makarfi as a group of "usurpers" and a "contraption" set up in defiance of valid court orders.
Consequently, Sheriff, through his lawyer, Mr. Ajibola Oluyede, is asking the court to hold that only he could preside over a convention or meeting to choose party leaders.
The PDP had sued Sheriff; Professor Adewale Oladipo, who was its National Secretary; the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC; the Inspector-General of Police and Department of State Services, DSS, before Justice I. Liman.
In his judgment, Justice Liman had then restrained Sheriff and Oladipo from parading themselves as Chairman, Secretary or members of the National Executive Committee, NEC, or National Working Committee, NWC, of the party until the suit was determined.
However, in a motion on notice before the court, Sheriff and Oladipo are arguing that those who sued them in the name of the PDP, lacked "the authority and locus" to institute the suit on the party's behalf.
They are also praying the court to discharge the ex parte order restraining them from holding their offices.
They said Justice Liman made the order on May 24, 12 days after Justice Ibrahim Buba of the court's Lagos division restrained the party from conducting elections into offices of Chairman, Secretary and Auditor.
According to them, PDP is a corporate entity and can only be "invoked" by the National Executive Committee, of which they (Sheriff and Oladipo) are principal officers.
They said PDP NWC, which is still under their control, did not instruct anyone to file the action on the party's behalf.
Sheriff described the inaugurated National Caretaker Committee headed by Senator Ahmed Makarfi as a group of "usurpers" and a "contraption" set up in defiance of valid court orders.
Consequently, Sheriff, through his lawyer, Mr. Ajibola Oluyede, is asking the court to hold that only he could preside over a convention or meeting to choose party leaders.
The PDP had sued Sheriff; Professor Adewale Oladipo, who was its National Secretary; the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC; the Inspector-General of Police and Department of State Services, DSS, before Justice I. Liman.
In his judgment, Justice Liman had then restrained Sheriff and Oladipo from parading themselves as Chairman, Secretary or members of the National Executive Committee, NEC, or National Working Committee, NWC, of the party until the suit was determined.
However, in a motion on notice before the court, Sheriff and Oladipo are arguing that those who sued them in the name of the PDP, lacked "the authority and locus" to institute the suit on the party's behalf.
They are also praying the court to discharge the ex parte order restraining them from holding their offices.
They said Justice Liman made the order on May 24, 12 days after Justice Ibrahim Buba of the court's Lagos division restrained the party from conducting elections into offices of Chairman, Secretary and Auditor.
According to them, PDP is a corporate entity and can only be "invoked" by the National Executive Committee, of which they (Sheriff and Oladipo) are principal officers.
They said PDP NWC, which is still under their control, did not instruct anyone to file the action on the party's behalf.
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