An Abuja High Court on Wednesday declared the
process that produced a former Borno State governor, Ali Modu-Sheriff, as
chairman of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) as faulty and unconstitutional
and therefore of no effect.
In similar manner, the court frowned at the
amendment of the Party’s constitution stating the the action violated the
Electoral Act and ipso facto illegal. The amendment had zoned the office of the
national chairman of the party to the North East.
In his ruling, the trial judge, Justice Ashi
held that the amendment was a violation of the Electoral Act and described the
actions of the PDP leaders who partook in the amendment as illegal and also held
that process that produced Sheriff to office was unlawful since it was based on
amended provision of the PDP constitution which was illegally introduced in
December 2014...
Consequently, the judge made an order
restraining all persons who became national officers of the party by virtue of
the amended Article 47, Rule 6 of the party’s constitution, to stop forth with
parading as officers of the party and voided the said amendment on the basis
that there was no compliance with mandatory provisions of Article 66 (2) and
(3) of the PDP constitution.
“By reason of the above, the purported
amendments introduced to the constitution on the aforesaid dates, are hereby
set-aside.
“All persons, individuals, servants or agents
of PDP parading themselves as national officers of the PDP pursuant to the
purported amendment which has now been nullified are hereby restrained from
further parading themselves in these capacities”, Justice Ashi held.
Following the development, there was a mixed
reaction as the National Caretaker Committee of the party expressed
satisfaction over the court judgment, the embattled former national chairman expressed
disappointment and vowed to proceed to set aside the judgment.
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