PDP: Courtroom extends order stopping Wike’s suspension

Justice James Omotosho gave the directive on Tuesday, February 14, 2023, after the counsel to the governor, Dr Joshua Musa, SAN, and lawyer to the PDP and others, Johnson Usman, SAN, agreed on March 6 to argue their case.

What Wike desires: The governor is praying for an order directing all events to take care of the established order and keep all actions within the matter referring to the menace to droop or expel him from the social gathering.

Wike additionally requested for an order of the court docket granting him go away to serve the movement on discover, originating movement and all different processes of the court docket within the swimsuit on the first to fifth respondents by substituted means by pasting all of the stated processes on the PDP Nationwide Secretariat.

What the court docket did: After listening to Wike’s lawyer, Dr J. Y. Musa, SAN, Justice Omotosho granted all of the reliefs sought.

What occurred earlier: Justice Omotosho had, on February 2, given a restraining order in opposition to the social gathering and others listed within the face of Wike’s movement dated February 2.

Others joined within the swimsuit embody its Nationwide Working Committee, NWC, and Nationwide Govt Committee, NEC, Nationwide Chairman of PDP, Dr Iyorchia Ayu.