Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike has filed a suit before a Federal High Court in Abuja, seeking to restrain the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) from suspending or expelling him from the party.
The suit marked FHC/ABJ/CS/139/2023 was filed through the governor’s lawyers, DY Musa (SAN); Douglas Moru, and C.C. Chibuike before Justice J.K Omotosho on February 2, 2023.
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The defendants in the lawsuit include; PDP; National Working Committee (NWC) of the PDP; National Executive Committee (NEC) of the PDP; Iyorchia Ayu, national chairman of the PDP; Samuel Anyawu, national secretary of the PDP and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).
Wike is asking the court to stop the defendants from suspending him pending the hearing of the suit.
After listening to the motion, Justice Omotosho ordered that all parties in the suit maintain peace and not take any action or step or act that may make the outcome of the motion “nugatory and worthless”.
The judge also directed that the defendants should be served with the notice through substituted means and that it should also be pasted at the PDP national headquarters in Abuja.
He then adjourned the hearing of the substantive suit till February 14.
