PDP Convention: Secondus loses appeal

The National Chairman of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) Uche Secondus, has lost his bid to stop the National Convention of the party scheduled to hold on the 30th and 31st of October.

Uche Secondus had approached the court of appeal to challenge his removal as chairman, while also seeking an order of injunction restraining the party from holding its scheduled national convention.

The three-member appeal panel while delivering judgment on Friday, unanimously dismissed the appeal for lacking in merit.

Gabriel Kolawale, who read the judgment, said the suit by Secondus was an after-thought and an abuse of court process.

The court blamed Secondus for not acting when his ward and local governments suspended him until now.

The appellant court consequently granted the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) the right to hold its scheduled national convention.