A High Court sitting in Makurdi, the Benue State capital, has issued an interim injunction restraining Dr Iyorchia Ayu from parading himself as the national chairman of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.
This came on a day Ayu dismissed his purported suspension by a section of his ward executives over alleged anti-party activities as the handiwork of some desperate ignorant gamblers, who lack basic understanding of PDP constitution.
The presiding judge, Justice W.I. Kpochi, gave the interim order yesterday in suit No. MHC/85/2023 filed at the court by Terhide Utaan with Ayu and the PDP as defendants.
The case was adjourned until April 17 for further hearing.
The application was supported by a 15 paragraph affidavit to which it was annexed three exhibits as exhibits A1, A2 and B, which were the applicant’s membership card of the second defendant, receipts for payment of dues and a vote of no confidence passed on the 1st defendant by the Igyorov Council Ward of the 2nd defendant in Gboko Local Government, Benue State.
The court order read: “Upon hearing Mr. M. T. Assoh, Counsel ably move the application and upon a dispassionate consideration of the facts placed before me in the pool of the affidavit evidence, and again, upon the consideration of the issues distilled in the written address by M. T. Assoh, Counsel, it is my candid view that this is a proper case to grant the interim injunction as craved.
“Consequently, this application is hereby granted in terms of the reliefs captured in the motion papers as herein before reproduced. It is so ordered.”
