A High Court in Ebonyi State on Thursday, restrained the newly inaugurated nine-member State Caretaker Committee of the Peoples Democratic Party! PDP) from parading as party executives.
The court order followed an exparte motion by members of the state working commitee led by Onyekachi Nwebonyi which was dissolved in the wake of the defection of Governor Dave Umahi to the All Progressives Congress (. APC).
Nwebonyi and other members of the dissolved Executive had dragged the PDP and National Chairman to court challenging the dissolution and setting up of a Caretaker Committee by the National Working Commitee.
The aggrieved members also joined in the suit, the nine members of the caretaker commitee put in place to replace them.
The plaintiffs through their Counsel,Roy Umahi claimed that they were wrongfully dissolved as they were not given fair hearing.
They prayed the court to grant an order of interim injunction restraining the PDP from dissolving the State Working Commitee and carrying on with its purported dissolution at the state, local government area or ward level.
The plaintiffs also prayed the court to restrain the PDP, its National Chairman (Secondus) from composition or recognition of the caretaker commitee members as well as transferring or vesting powers to the commitee at the state, local and ward levels pending the determination of the
motion on notice.
Umahi argued that there was no genuine reason for the dissolution of the SWC or setting up of the Caretaker Committee and neither the National Executive Commitee nor any other organ of the party has the power to dissolve the local government and ward executives of the party before the expiration of their tenures.
The Presiding Judge, Justice Elvis Ngele thereafte,r granted the prayers of the plaintiffs and adjourned the case to December 2,2020 for hearing.
