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.
Plaintiffs in the ex-parte application marked FHC/ABJ/CS/1396/2024 are Aaron Chukwuemeka, Oye Fubara Igenewari and ThankGod Bekee, who sued on behalf of themselves and state, local government and ward executive committees. The defendants are PDP, Umar Damagun, Samuel Anyanwu, Umar Bature, NWC, NEC, BOT, INEC and Alhaji Bala Mohammed of the PDP Governors' Forum as 1st to 9th defendants.
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