Court Orders PDP To Stop Further Action On Governor Amaechi’s Suspension
A Legal reprieve has come the way of Governor Chibuike Amaechi of Rivers State in Southern Nigeria, who is locked in a battle of survival with forces seeking to oust him from office.
A Port Harcourt High Court on Friday, stopped the ruling People’s Democratic Party (PDP) from taking further action against Governor Amaechi, pending the hearing of a substantive suit challenging his suspension from the part.
Justice Emmanuel Ogbuji, issued the order following a preliminary application brought before the court by Amaechi’s legal team led by a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Akin Olujinm.
The court also directed the court to maintain the status quo in the matter until the substantive suit brought by the governor has been heard.
The court also summoned the PDP to appear before it on Thursday, June 6, 2013.
Ogbuji also directed Amaechi to serve the PDP the necessary court processes by pasting them on the walls of the party in Abuja and through newspaper publication.
Lead counsel to the governor, Olujinmi, said the court had directed him to put the party on notice before the adjourned date, being next Thursday.
“We are in court to set aside the suspension, challenging the purported. We prayed the court to grant us an interim, restraining the party from doing anything further based on the purported suspension”, Olujinmi said.
It would be recalled that the National Working Committee (NWC) of his party, the PDP, had on Tuesday announced his suspension from the party for his failure to rescind the decision of the state’s House of Assembly to suspend the elected officials of Obio/Akpor local government council.
