A high court in Rivers State on Monday, issued an an order of interim injunction restraining Uche Secondus from parading self as the national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
Judge O. Gbasam reportedly issued the order following an ex parte application filed by four applicants.
A copy of the court order which went viral online on Monday has the quartet of Ibeawuchi Alex, Dennis Amadi, Emmanuel Stephen, and Umezerike Onucha, as the plaintiffs.
Mr Secondus and the PDP are the defendants sued in the suit marked PHC/2183/CS/2021.
Details of the applicants’ grouse against Mr Secondus were not contained in the document which appeared online.
The court order indicated that the applicants’ lawyer, H.A Bello, argued his clients’ ex parte application after which the court granted the interim restraining orders sought against Mr Secondus.
The court also barred him from performing the functions of the national chairman of the party “or calling, attending or presiding over any meeting of the 2nd defendant (PDP) or any committee of the 2nd defendant at the Ward, Local Government or State level”.
It also stopped him from calling for any ward, local government or state congress of the PDP or setting up committees for such congresses or participating in any activity of the 2nd defendant whatsoever.
It added that Mr Secondus must not take any of these actions “whilst on suspension as a member of the 2nd defendant pending the hearing and determination of the motion on notice for interlocutory injunction.”
The judge also granted leave to serve the main suit and other processes filed by the applicants on the respondents through substituted means by pasting same to his gate at No.1 William Jumbo Street, Old G.R.A Port Harcourt.
No fresh hearing date is indicated on the court document.
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