PDP crisis: Court declines to stop INEC from recognising Anyanwu’s sack
THE Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has declined to grant an application the embattled National Secretary of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Senator Samuel Anyanwu, filed to restrain the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, from giving effect to his removal as the party’s scribe. Specifically, Anyanwu, in the motion ex-parte filed through his team of lawyers, led by Mr. Ken Njemanze, SAN, prayed the court to bar the electoral body or its agents from receiving or acting upon any correspondent or submission from the PDP, unless such documents were signed by him. He further applied for an injunction to restrain the National Chairman of the party, Umar Damagun, from forwarding any correspondence, document or written submissions to INEC without his own signature. However, instead of granting the prayers, the court, in a ruling delivered by Justice Inyang Ekwo, directed the Applicant to go and put all the defendants in the matter, including the INEC, on notice. Justice Ek...