Ayu's sack: Judge withdraws from suit, adjourns to April 28
A Makurdi High Court, presided over by Justice Wilfred Kpochi, yesterday, adjourned the suit seeking to remove the suspended National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Dr. Iyorchia Ayu, to April 28, 2023. It will be recalled that Dr. Ayu was suspended by the PDP ward executive of his Igyorov Ward of Gboko Local Government Area, LGA, of Benue State, after passing a vote of 'no confidence' on him. Shortly afterward, a stalwart of the party, Mr. Conrad Utaan, approached the court seeking, among other reliefs, a declaration that "Dr. Ayu is no longer fit and qualified to hold office as the national chairman of the PDP, having lost membership of the party in his Igyorov Council Ward of Gboko, where he first registered as a member of the party. "A declaration that Dr. Ayu could not hold himself out, function and preside over the affairs of the PDP as its National Chairman having ceased to enjoy all the rights and privileges of membership by virtue of his suspe...