Uche Secondus: Appeal Court Partly Decide On Suspension Of PDP Convention

Secondus, the embattled Chairman of the People's Democratic Party (PDP), Prince Uche Secondus, is seeking for an interim order suspending the PDP convention scheduled for Saturday, October 30.

Secondus through his Counsel, Payo Oyetubo, is asking the court to suspend the October, 30th and 31st National Convention of the party and grant him the right to preside over the convention.

When the matter was mentioned in court, six other members of PDP drew the attention of the court on their application for joinder which was not opposed by counsel to Secondus and was subsequently granted by the three man panel of the appeal court, Vanguard reports.

However, the defendants' Counsel including those who joined in the suit opposed to the motion for Interim injunction by Secondus' counsel seeking to stop the PDP forthcoming National Convention, asked for time to respond to the process.

The three-man appeal panel led by Justice Haruna Simon Tsammani after listening to the argument from the parties, ordered counsel to the plaintiff to serve the process on the defendant's Counsel within 24 hours.

Tsammani also urged respondents' counsels to respond within 24 hours and adjourned till 28th of October, for hearing and possible ruling on the motion.