The Court docket of Attraction, Abuja Division, on Friday, put aside a decrease courtroom order barring the previous Nationwide Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Social gathering, Uche Secondus; the sacked
Rivers Governor, Celestine Omehia; and a former Deputy Speaker of the Home of Representatives, Austin Opara, from attending the social gathering’s conferences.
A 3-member panel of the Court docket of Attraction, in three separate judgements, unanimously upheld the appeals filed by the three aggrieved social gathering chieftains.
The appellate courtroom held that it discovered advantage of their appeals.
Justice Inyang Ekwo of the Federal Excessive Court docket in Abuja had issued an order barring Secondus, Omehia, and Opara from additional attending any assembly of the social gathering’s Nationwide Government Committee or collaborating in deliberations or proceedings of the conferences in any method.
The appellate courtroom, nevertheless, held that the problem of whether or not members of a celebration ought to attend the social gathering’s conferences or take part in any of its actions is a matter to be decided by the political social gathering.
The courtroom additionally held that points relating as to whether or not members of a political social gathering ought to attend the social gathering’s conferences, being inner affairs of the social gathering, are usually not justiciable and past the courtroom’s jurisdiction.
It dominated that the Federal Excessive Court docket ought to not have entertained the circumstances as a result of it lacked the jurisdiction to listen to and decide fits coping with points inside the realm of the interior affairs of the political social gathering.
The Appellate Court docket declared the proceedings performed within the three circumstances earlier than the Federal Excessive Court docket null and void.
The courtroom additionally voided the restraining orders made ex-parte by Justice Ekwo on 5 April.
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