CONFUSION | One Court Declares PDP Committee Illegal, Another Bars Sheriff as Chairman

Justice Ibrahim Buba of a Federal High Court in Lagos has declared as invalid the caretaker committee constituted over the weekend to take over the affairs of the Peoples Democratic Party from its acting National Chairman, Ali Modu Sheriff, Punch newspapers has reported.

The judge, in a ruling on Monday, reinstated Sheriff as Chairman of the PDP and directed the Inspector General of Police, Solomon Arase, to enforce his order, barring the members of the constituted caretaker committee from taking over the affairs of the party.

In another development, online newspaper The Trent reports that a Federal High Court sitting in Port Harcourt, Rivers State has granted an interim injunction restraining Senator Ali Modu Sherrif, and Professor Adewale Oladipo who were removed from office at the PDP National Convention held on Saturday May 21, 2016, from parading themselves as national officers of the party pending the hearing and determination of the motion on notice brought before it by the Peoples Democratic Party.

More details to come.

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