By Amos Aar
A Benue State High Court sitting in Makurdi on Monday restrained Dr Iyorchia Ayu from parading himself as the national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
The court gave the order while ruling on an ex-parte application brought before it by a member of the party in Benue State, Engr Conrad Terhide Utaan, through his counsel, Mike Assoh, Esq.
The presiding judge, Justice Wilfred Kpochi, in a ruling ordered Ayu to stop parading himself as the national chairman of the PDP having lost membership of the party, pending the hearing and determination of a motion on notice already filed.
Dr Ayu was on Sunday suspended by PDP’s Igyorov Ward executive, Gboko LGA of Benue State.
In suit No MHC/85/2023, filed by Utaan, Dr Ayu is the first defendant while the PDP is the second defendant.
The suit seeks among other reliefs a declaration that Ayu is no longer fit 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.
It also seeks a declaration that Ayu cannot hold himself out, function and preside over the affairs of the PDP as its national chairman having seized to enjoy all the rights and privileges of membership by virtue of his suspension by the ward executive committee of the party in his Igyorov Council Ward of Gboko LGA.
Justice Kpochi adjourned the matter till April 17, 2023 for hearing of the substantive suit.
