Court docket restrains PDP, Orbih from conducting South-South zonal congress

A Rivers State Excessive Court docket sitting in Port Harcourt has issued an interim injunction restraining the Peoples Democratic Party and the Nationwide Vice Chairman South-South, Dan Orbih, from conducting the social gathering’s South-South Zonal Congress.

The court docket ordered the social gathering to not go forward with the zonal congress scheduled to carry in Calabar, Cross River State Capital on Saturday, February 22.

The claimants within the swimsuit marked PHC/551/CS/2025 are Tonu Uchechukwu Ejiogu and Discipline Nkor, who’re members of the PDP in Rivers State, whereas the defendants are the PDP, and the Chief Dan Orbih.

Justice G.V. Obomanu gave the order following submissions by the counsel for the claimants, Emeka D.A. Ojoko.

The court docket ordered the defendants, together with their brokers and representatives, to halt any preparations for the congress till the listening to and dedication of the Movement on Discover for Interlocutory Injunction.

Justice Obomanu additionally mandated all events concerned to take care of the established order as of February 20, 2025, pending additional court docket proceedings.

The court docket additional granted the claimants’ permission to serve authorized paperwork on the PDP and Orbih by way of substituted means, together with posting notices on the social gathering’s South-South Zonal Headquarters alongside Aboa Highway in Port Harcourt and publishing the discover in a extensively learn nationwide newspaper.

The order partly reads, “That Order of an Interim Injunction be and is hereby made restraining the Defendants/Respondents, their organs, brokers, servants, assigns and privies from conducting the first Defendant/Respondent’s South-South Zonal Congress in Calabar, Cross Rivers State or wherever else in Nigeria on twenty second February 2025 or another date in anyway, pending the listening to and dedication of the Movement on Discover for Interlocutory Injunction.

“That an Order is hereby made directing the events to take care of the standing Quo ante litem as at twentieth February 2025, pending the listening to and dedication of the Movement on Discover for Interlocutory Injunction.

“That depart be and is hereby granted to the Claimants/Candidates to serve the Originating Processes and different subsequent processes to be filed on this Go well with on the Defendants/Respondents by Substituted Means,to wit, by pasting similar on the gate of the Ist Defendant/Respondent’s South-South Zonal Headquarters.”

Justice Obomanu, nonetheless, adjourned the matter to February 28, 2025, for a listening to on the Movement on Discover.