Appeal Court docket backs Lamido in PDP conference dispute

The Court docket of Appeal in Abuja on Monday affirmed the judgment of the Federal Excessive Court docket restraining the Peoples Democratic Party from continuing with its November 15 and 16 nationwide conference in Ibadan, Oyo State, with out permitting a former Governor of Jigawa State, Sule Lamido, to take part as a chairmanship aspirant.

In a unanimous choice, a three-member panel of the appellate courtroom upheld the November 14 judgment delivered by Justice Peter Lifu of the Federal Excessive Court docket, Abuja, which directed the social gathering to offer Lamido the chance to contest within the race for the social gathering’s nationwide chairmanship.

The appellate courtroom held that the PDP’s choice to proceed with the conference regardless of the subsisting order of the Federal Excessive Court docket was contemptuous and amounted to a disregard for the authority of the courtroom.

In response to the panel, it was not in dispute that the social gathering went forward to conduct the conference in defiance of the courtroom order directing it to permit Lamido to take part within the train.

The courtroom rejected the PDP’s argument that it carried out the conference in compliance with the judgment of one other courtroom of coordinate jurisdiction.

It held that it was not for any social gathering in a case to find out which courtroom order to obey or disregard.

The courtroom famous that the right step open to the PDP was to hunt a keep of execution of the judgment or file an attraction towards the choice.

It consequently held that the trial courtroom was proper to imagine jurisdiction over Lamido’s swimsuit and grant the aid he sought.

The appellate courtroom subsequently dismissed the attraction, marked CA/ABJ/1695/2025, for missing advantage and awarded N2m in prices towards the PDP.

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