Iruoma Okpalaebubu
A Rivers State High Court sitting in Port Harcourt has stopped the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for holding its Zonal Congress scheduled to hold in Calabar, Cross River State on Saturday.
The court ordered that the South-South zonal congress should neither hold in Cross River nor anywhere in Nigeria.
The matter registered in Suit No. PHC/551/CS/2025 was instituted by Tony Ejiogu, a member of the PDP from Ward 3 in Etche Local Government Area and Field Nkor, former Vice-Chairman, Southeast PDP.
The case presided by Justice G.V. Obomanu has as defendants the PDP and National Vice-Chairman, Southsouth zone of the PDP, Chief Dan Orbih.
The judge in a order of Interim Injunction he issued, yesterday restrained the defendants, their agents and privies from conducting the PDP South-south zonal congress in Calabar, Cross River State, or anywhere else in Nigeria pending the determination of the motion on notice.
The court ordered the parties to maintain status quo ante litem, pending the hearing and determination of the motion on notice.
The court also granted the request of the claimants to serve the originating and other subsequent processes to be filed on the suit on the defendants by substituted means, pasting same at the gate of the first defendant (PDP) South-South zonal headquarters at Road 1, Plot 2A Presidential Housing Estate, New GRA, Port Harcourt or by publication in any widely read national newspaper.
The matter was adjourned till February 28, 2025 for mention on notice.