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No end in sight for PDP crisis, as A’Court adjourns case ‘sine-die’

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The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) leaders who are in court over who controls the affairs of the party have been left in the dark on when the cases will be decided by the Appeal Court.

This was as the Appeal Court sitting in Abuja on Thursday adjourned hearing on the party’s leadership crisis, which has continued to threaten the continuous existence of the party, sine-die (indefinitely).

Justice Ibrahim Saulawa-led three-man panel of justices of the appellate court suspended hearing on the matter to await the ending of a similar case pending before the Port Harcourt Division of the Court.

The appellate court decision came as a motion filed by the Sen Ali Modu Sheriff faction of the PDP, which had through their counsel, Chief Akin Olujinmi, SAN, prayed the appellate court panel to momentarily hands-off the suit filed by the Sen Ahmed Markafi-led faction of the party.

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Their prayer was anchored on the fact that the court in Port Harcourt had already heard the matter before it and reserved its judgment.

The three pending appeals that were suspended by the Justice Saulawa-led panel on Thursday were marked CA/A/402/2016; CA/A/402A/2016 and CA/A/402D/M/2016.

The petitioners are principally challenging a judgment Justice Okon Abang of the Federal High Court in Abuja delivered on June 30, which acknowledged Sheriff as National Chairman of the Party.

 

 

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