PDP LEADERSHIP: Court Nullifies Sheriff 's Chairmanship, Constitution Amendments, Others

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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