Federal High Court refuses to stop PDP primaries.

A Federal High Court in Abuja on
Friday rejected an ex parte application
filed by a suspended Deputy Chairman
of the Peoples Democratic Party in
Ogun State, Sunday Soledolu, seeking
to stop the party from holding the
primaries for various elective offices
in the state scheduled to commence
on Saturday.
Rather than granting the application,
Justice Ahmed Mohammed ordered
the plaintiff to put the defendants to
enable them to file their responses in
the suit.
The court then adjourned till
December 4 for hearing.
The state chairman of PDP, Chief
Adebayo Dayo, the PDP and the
Independent National Electoral
Commission are the defendants in the
suit.
The plaintiff’s counsel, Oviemumo
Obobolo of Festus Keyamo law firm,
had filed the ex parte application
seeking an interlocutory injunction
restraining the PDP and Dayo from
holding primaries for various elective
positions pending the determination of
the suit.
In a 17 paragraph affidavit of urgency
deposed to by the plaintiff himself, he
averred that he assumed office
sometime as the deputy chairman
alongside Dayo and other members of
his executive committee in 2012 for a
four-year time.
He said he was suspended on
November 6, 2013.
He added that the chairman proceeded
to make illegal appointment of Leye
Odunjo as the acting deputy chairman
for the party in the state in the
following day.
He said two other persons had been
successively appointed as deputy
chairman of the party in Ogun State.
The plaintiff also averred that he had
been deprived from exercising the
powers of his office as the deputy
chairman and was excluded from
participating in the just concluded
South West Zone congress.
He however sought an interlocutory
injunction restraining the defendants
from refusing to accord recognition
and every facility required by law to
him for the purpose of the exercise of
his duties as the deputy chairman.