Court Grants Accelerated Hearing Of Suit Seeking To Bar Obaseki From PDP Primary
The Federal High Court sitting in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital has granted a request for an accelerated hearing of the suit seeking to bar Governor Godwin Obaseki from participating in the governorship primary election of the Peoples Democratic Party in Edo State.
The primary election is scheduled for Thursday, June 25, to choose the PDP flag bearer for the governorship election in September. Before adjourning the matter until Wednesday for hearing of the summon, Justice Emmanuel Obile ordered that the parties in the suit should be served through substituted means in two national dailies.
Also listed as defendants were five members of the PDP and the Independent National Electoral Commission .
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