Federal Capital Territory High Court sitting in Kubwa, on Tuesday, reserved judgement on the eligibility of Ali Modu Sheriff as Chairman of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) till Wednesday.
The plaintiff, Danladi Ayuba had approached the FCT Court to determine whether Sheriff can continue to do anything legally on behalf of the party.
That is despite the binding and submitting court judgement which annulled the amendment of the party’s constitution under the leadership Sheriff.
The hearing of notice is between Danladi Ayuba (Plaintiff) and Senator Ali Modu Sheriff (defendant).
The judgement expected to be delivered on Wednesday, August 17, at the High Court of FCT at 9am.
It would be recalled that there have been power tussle between the Modu-Sheriff camp and the Ahmed Makarfi-led caretaker committee.
He committee was appointed by some PDP governors at the national convention in Port Harcourt, Rivers state.
The embattled national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Ali Modu Sheriff was removed by an Abuja high court on Wednesday, June 29.
The court presided over by Justice Valentine Ashi, sacked the party’s chairman from office.
The judge nullified the 2014 PDP constitution amendment upon which Sheriff was appointed as the PDP chairman.
It also voided the said amendment on the basis that there was no compliance with mandatory provisions of Article 66 (2) and (3) of the PDP constitution.
Earlier, Elombah.com had reported conflicting Judgement over PDP Convention as courts sing discordant tunes.
See also: PDP crisis: Courts give conflicting judgements over convention
A Federal High Court had on Monday suspended the scheduled national convention of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, earlier slated for August 17.
However, Another Federal high Court in Port Harcourt had early hour on Monday validated the August 17th , 2016 National Convention of PDP.
The convention was scheduled to hold in Port Harcourt.
It directed the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to monitor party’s national convention.
But, Justice Okon Abang in Abuja Federal High Court said he gave the ruling to serve as a “judicial deterrent” for what he described as the “excesses of parties”.
Mr. Abang was expected to rule on an application filed by a faction of the party led by a former Kaduna State governor, Ahmed Makarfi, and a former senator, Ben Obi.
He had adjourned Monday’s hearing after granting the application by the faction.
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