Court orders Secondus to return as PDP Chairman

Reprieve has come the way of embattled Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) National Chairman, Prince Uche Secondus, as a Kebbi State High Court Thursday ordered him to return to his position.

A Rivers High Court sitting in Port Harcourt had on Monday granted an order of interim injunction stopping Secondus from parading himself as the National Chairman of the PDP, following a suit filed against him by some members of the party.

A vacation Judge, Justice Nusrat Umar, gave the order in a suit brought before her in Birinin Kebbi, the state capital.

In the case, cited as KB/AC/M. 170/2021, Justice Umar said she was satisfied after reading the affidavit of the respondents.

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She said it was necessary to issue an interim order on the purported suspension of Prince Secondus pending the determination of the case.

The order reads as follows: “An order of this Honourable court granting leave to the first respondent (Uche Secondus) to continue exercising all the constitutional powers of the office of Chairman of PDP (second defendant) as enshrined in both 1999 Constitution of Nigeria as amended and the Peoples Democratic Party’s constitution pending the hearing and final determination of applicant’s motion on notice.

“Any further order(s) as this Honourable Court may deem fit to make in the circumstances.”

Three concerned members of the party, Yahaya Usman, Abubakar Mohammed and Bashar Suleman are the claimants/Applicant in the case while Prince Secondus and the PDP are the defendants/Respondents.