Court Sacks PDP EXCO In Anambra

*Voids All Congresses, Appointments Made Since March
6

A High Court of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) in Maitama,
Abuja, has sacked the state and local government executive councils
(EXCOs) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Anambra State.

Justice O.A. Adeniyi gave the order sacking the EXCOs in a
judgment on a suit marked: HC/CV/774/2021 filed by Samuel Anyakolah
(for himself and all local government chairmen and ward executives
that emerged from the Anambra PDP congress conducted on November 28
and December 1, 2017 under the supervision of Sir Chukwudi Umeaba,
as Acting Chairman State Caretaker Committee).

Listed as defendants in the suit are the PDP, Chief Ndubisi
Nwobu and Barr. Uchenna Obiora.

Anyakolah claimed that the PDP arbitrarily imposed state
chairmen, Exco members and local government chairmen and national
delegates on members in its Southeast zonal congress of March March
6, 2021.

He contended that the congress was held in disregard of an
extant list of already inaugurated party officers and delegates
that emerged from the Anambra PDP congresses conducted on November
28, 2017 and December 1, 2017 validated by Senator France Bent Ward
Congress Appeal Panel report and Barrister Ukpai Ukairo Local
Government Appeal Panel report.

Justice Adeniyi, in the judgment delivered on June 9, 2021, a
copy of which was seen yesterday, agreed with the
plaintiff/claimant) that the PDP violated its constitution in the
conduct of the Southeast zonal congress of March March 6, 2021 and
the appointments made therein.

The judge proceeded to declare among others, that “all
congresses, designations or appointments made by the first
defendant (the PDP), with respect to the positions of the state
chairman, EXCO members and local government chairmen, as contained
in pages 14,15 and 16 of the Southeast zonal congress brochure of
6th March 2021 are hereby nullified and set aside.”

He also declared that it is unlawful for the PDP, whether during
its Southeast zonal congress of 6th March or at any time, to adopt
or publish the name of a state chairman, alongside persons
purporting to be his EXCO members, local government chairmen and
national delegates, without recourse to the extant list of the
already inaugurated party officers and delegates that emerged from
the Anambra PDP congresses conducted on November 28, 2017 and
December 1, 2017 validated by Senator France Bent Ward Congress
Appeal Panel report and Barrister Ukpai Ukairo Local Government
Appeal Panel report.”

The judge ordered the PDP to henceforth, recognise and adopt
only the list of the already inaugurated party officers and
delegates that emerged from the Anambra PDP congresses conducted on
November 28, 2017 and December 1, 2017 validated by Senator France
Bent Ward Congress Appeal Panel report and Barrister Ukpai Ukairo
Local Government Appeal Panel report, under the supervision of Sir
Chukwudi Umeaba, who shall continue to act in the capacities for
which they were duly elected.

*Voids All Congresses, Appointments Made Since March
6

A High Court of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) in Maitama,
Abuja, has sacked the state and local government executive councils
(EXCOs) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Anambra State.

Justice O.A. Adeniyi gave the order sacking the EXCOs in a
judgment on a suit marked: HC/CV/774/2021 filed by Samuel Anyakolah
(for himself and all local government chairmen and ward executives
that emerged from the Anambra PDP congress conducted on November 28
and December 1, 2017 under the supervision of Sir Chukwudi Umeaba,
as Acting Chairman State Caretaker Committee).

Listed as defendants in the suit are the PDP, Chief Ndubisi
Nwobu and Barr. Uchenna Obiora.

Anyakolah claimed that the PDP arbitrarily imposed state
chairmen, Exco members and local government chairmen and national
delegates on members in its Southeast zonal congress of March March
6, 2021.

He contended that the congress was held in disregard of an
extant list of already inaugurated party officers and delegates
that emerged from the Anambra PDP congresses conducted on November
28, 2017 and December 1, 2017 validated by Senator France Bent Ward
Congress Appeal Panel report and Barrister Ukpai Ukairo Local
Government Appeal Panel report.

Justice Adeniyi, in the judgment delivered on June 9, 2021, a
copy of which was seen yesterday, agreed with the
plaintiff/claimant) that the PDP violated its constitution in the
conduct of the Southeast zonal congress of March March 6, 2021 and
the appointments made therein.

The judge proceeded to declare among others, that “all
congresses, designations or appointments made by the first
defendant (the PDP), with respect to the positions of the state
chairman, EXCO members and local government chairmen, as contained
in pages 14,15 and 16 of the Southeast zonal congress brochure of
6th March 2021 are hereby nullified and set aside.”

He also declared that it is unlawful for the PDP, whether during
its Southeast zonal congress of 6th March or at any time, to adopt
or publish the name of a state chairman, alongside persons
purporting to be his EXCO members, local government chairmen and
national delegates, without recourse to the extant list of the
already inaugurated party officers and delegates that emerged from
the Anambra PDP congresses conducted on November 28, 2017 and
December 1, 2017 validated by Senator France Bent Ward Congress
Appeal Panel report and Barrister Ukpai Ukairo Local Government
Appeal Panel report.”

The judge ordered the PDP to henceforth, recognise and adopt
only the list of the already inaugurated party officers and
delegates that emerged from the Anambra PDP congresses conducted on
November 28, 2017 and December 1, 2017 validated by Senator France
Bent Ward Congress Appeal Panel report and Barrister Ukpai Ukairo
Local Government Appeal Panel report, under the supervision of Sir
Chukwudi Umeaba, who shall continue to act in the capacities for
which they were duly elected.