Delivering judgment, Justice Ekwo, said he found that the case of the plaintiff, Mr Desmond Akawo who is the chairman of the state Exco, succeeded on merit.
Justice Inyang Ekwo of the Federal High Court, Abuja, has restrained the national body of the Peoples Democratic Party from dissolving the Rivers’ chapter of the State Executive Committee over alleged anti-party activities.
The judge, who granted all Akawo’s reliefs, declared that the party and its national chairman cannot unilaterally and without reasonable cause, dissolve the state’s excos who were democratically elected for a four-year period.He also gave an order of injunction restraining them from appointing any person or group of persons as an interim caretaker committee in the state until May 22, 2024.
Akawo had sued the party and Dr Iyorchia Ayu and National Executive Committee ) as 1st and 2nd defendants. In the affidavit which he personally deposed to, Akawo said that the PDP and its national chairman on Jan. 4, prior to the general elections, threatened to unilaterally dissolve the Rivers’ chapter of SEC and replace the same with an Interim Caretaker Committee.
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