A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Get together (PDP) and former media adviser to ex-Vice President Namadi Sambo, Sani Umar, has described the current court docket judgment in opposition to the celebration as politically motivated and biased.
Umar said this throughout an interview with Come up TV, the place he reacted to the ruling delivered by Justice Omotosho, which ordered the PDP to present a 21-day discover earlier than holding its nationwide conference.
In line with him, the judgment didn’t replicate the information of the case and granted reliefs that had been by no means requested by the plaintiffs.
“The judgment of Justice Omotosho was prejudicial, premeditated, and politically motivated,” Umar mentioned.
“He gave the plaintiffs what they didn’t even ask for. The problem of a 21-day discover was not a part of their prayers, but he went forward to incorporate it.”
He accused the decide of displaying bias in his dealing with of instances involving the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, who he mentioned has been inducing crises throughout the PDP.
“We all know that any matter earlier than Justice Omotosho involving Wike is not going to favor the PDP,” Umar alleged.
“He has displayed bias, and we’re going to petition the Nationwide Judicial Council over this matter.”
Umar mentioned the court docket ignored key points raised by the PDP, together with the query of jurisdiction, and failed to handle the celebration’s arguments.
“We requested the court docket to rule on the problem of jurisdiction as a result of the matter was an inside celebration affair,” he defined. “However the decide didn’t even contact that time. As a substitute, he went straight into the case and began setting apart our submissions.”
Talking additional on the suspension disaster rocking the PDP, Umar mentioned the 4 members who claimed to have suspended the Nationwide Chairman, Ambassador Iliya Damagum, lacked the ability to take action, as they didn’t even type a quorum of the Nationwide Working Committee (NWC).
“Those that mentioned they suspended the nationwide chairman don’t have any such authority,” he mentioned.
“The NWC has 19 members, and solely 4 of them can’t type a quorum to carry a legitimate assembly, to not discuss of suspending the nationwide chairman.”
He added that the suspension introduced by the group was reactionary and geared toward deceiving the general public.
“What they’re making an attempt to do is to create confusion within the eyes of the general public. However within the minds of those that are PDP members, we all know that the NWC chaired by Damagum adopted the correct process.”
Umar maintained that the Nationwide Working Committee acted strictly throughout the provisions of the PDP Structure in suspending erring members.
“Part 58 and 59 of our structure empower the committee to droop any member discovered responsible of misconduct,” he mentioned. “The nationwide chairman duly summoned the assembly, and 15 members had been in attendance. That’s a transparent quorum.”
He insisted that the PDP would enchantment the judgment and proceed with its conference, noting that the ruling was designed to frustrate the celebration’s reorganization efforts.
“We are going to enchantment the judgment and apply for a keep of execution. As soon as that’s granted, the ruling will not be binding, and we’ll go forward with our conference.”
