Rivers court to hear argument on interlocutory injunction against PDP

Rivers State High Court presided over by Justice Stephen Jumbo, has scheduled a hearing for January 15, 2025, to argue an interlocutory injunction filed by two Port Harcourt-based legal practitioners, Edwin Woko and Love Otunoye and two others who are members of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP).

The applicants are seeking to nullify the congresses conducted in 319 wards, 23 local government areas, and the state structure of PDP in Rivers State, which took place on July 27, August 10, and August 31.

They claimed the congresses were conducted in violation of a Rivers State High Court order issued on July 16, 2024, which prohibited the PDP and its national chairman from conducting congresses pending the hearing and determination of the originating summons.

The applicants are also seeking an order restraining Aaron Chukwuemeka and others from acting, representing or parading themselves as members of the state executive committee or officers of the PDP.

Furthermore, they are seeking a court order recognising them as the authentic and subsisting members of the state executive committee of the PDP and directing the PDP and its national leadership to recognise and deal with them.

Justice Stephen Jumbo adjourned the case until January 15, 2025, after listening to the counsel for the defendants, who informed the court of the absence of the claimants’ counsel.