The Court of Appeal sitting in Port Harcourt has rescheduled the ruling on a motion filed by the Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Prince Uche Secondus.
Secondus had through his counsel, Payo Oyetubo, urged the court to suspend the October 30 and October 31 national convention of the party and declare him the right person to preside over the exercise.
The court, after hearing submissions by parties, fixed Thursday, October 28 to hear and rule on the motion for an Interim Injunction brought by Secondus against the PDP and others.
When the matter came up, yesterday, six other members of the PDP drew the attention of the court to their application for joinder, which was not opposed by counsel to Secondus and was subsequently granted by the three-man panel of the Court of Appeal
However, the defendants’ counsel, including those who joined in the suit opposed to the motion for an Interim Injunction by Secondus’ counsel seeking to stop the PDP’s forthcoming national convention, asked for time to respond to the process.
The three-man appeal panel led by Justice Haruna Simon Tsammani, after listening to the argument from the parties, ordered counsel to the plaintiff to serve the process on the defendant’s counsel within 24 hours.
Tsammani also urged the respondents’ counsels to respond within 24 hours and adjourned till October 28.
