Court Restrains PDP, INEC on Obaseki

A federal high court sitting in Port Harcourt presided over by Justice E.A. Obile has restrained the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP from allowing Governor Godwin Obaseki in participating in its primary scheduled for Thursday.

The order which also restrains the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC from recognizing Obaseki as the candidate of the party was pursuant to an ex parte motion brought before the court by an aspirant in the election and House f Representatives member, Honourable Omoregie Ogbeide-Ihama.

He claimed in court papers obtained that Obaseki did not meet the guidelines for the purchase of forms and other laid down regulations instituted by the party.

Obaseki according to the court should show cause by Wednesday, June 24 why the order should not subsist.

Ogbeide-Ihama had been favoured to win the PDP primary having gotten the backing of the PDP establishment for the contest before the entry of Obaseki into the party.

Ogbeide-Ihama’s lawyers D.C. Denwigwe (SAN), Ferdinard Orbih (SAN) and O.O. Okonkwo, Esq presented the affidavit sworn to by the applicant to the judge who thus granted the injunction and fixed June 24 for the hearing putting Obaseki’s second term aspiration in more suspense.