PDP Crisis: Appeal Court Rejects Recognition of Interim NWC
The Court of Appeal in Abuja has dismissed an appeal seeking to compel the Independent National Electoral Commission to recognise the Interim National Working Committee of the Peoples Democratic Party.
A statement by the National publicity secretary of the party Jungudo Haruna Mohammed says the three-member special panel, presided over by Justice Ugochukwu Anthony Ogakwu, with Justices Laja Balogun and Ruquayat Oremei Ayoola, who delivered the judgment, dismissed the appeal filed by Senator Adolphus Wabara and seven others against INEC and six other respondents.
The appellants, including the Chairman and members of the PDP Board of Trustees and some founding members, had asked the appellate court to set aside a Federal High Court judgment delivered by Justice Salim, which refused to compel INEC to recognise the Interim National Working Committee led by Kabiru Turaki
The interim committee was constituted following a National Executive Committee meeting held after a Supreme Court judgment on the party’s leadership dispute.
However, the Court of Appeal upheld the Federal High Court’s decision in its entirety and dismissed the appeal.
Reacting to the judgment, the National Publicity Secretary of the Interim National Working Committee, Ini Ememobong said the group respected the court’s decision but would challenge it at the Supreme Court.
