ABUJA – A member of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Aliyu Gurinn, while challenging the appointment of Alhaji Adamu Mu’azu as the PDP national chairman in a suit filed before Justice Evoh Chukwu in a Federal High Court in Abuja on Monday, also asked the court to stop the party’s national convention scheduled to hold between December 10th and 11th.
The plaintiff contended in an application for interlocutory injunction said that the appointment of Mu’azu as the National Chairman of the party was illegal and thus the national convention cannot be held under his (Mu’azu’s) leadership, and until the time the suit is determined Mu’azu should stop parading himself as the party’s national chairman.
The plaintiff’s two prayers in the application for interlocutory injunction read in part, “An order of interlocutory injunction restraining the 1st defendant (PDP) from holding its national convention slated for December 10 and 11, 2014 under the chairmanship of the 3rd defendant Mu’azu pending the final determination of this suit.
“An order of interlocutory injunction restraining the 3rd defendant from acting as the National Chairman of the 1st defendant pending the final determination of this suit.”
Gurin contends that Mu’azu’s appointment following a purported resignation of the immediate past National Chairman of the party, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, was illegal having flouted provisions of 47(6) of the party’s constitution and section 85(3) of the Electoral Act.
