Defected PDP Governors Frustrate Party's Suit




Defected PDP  Governors on Wednesday stalled the hearing of a suit instituted by the crisis ridden party where the party is seeking to compel the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to declare the defected governors offices vacant.

The governors are Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers state, Murtala Nyako of Adamawa state, Aliyu Wamako of Sokoto state, Rabiu Kwankwaso of Kano state and Abdulfatah Ahmed of Kwara state.

The assembled team of senior advocates of Nigeria who represented the governors who had decamped to the opposition All Progresive Congress, APC, challenged the competence of the purported service of the originating summons on their clients noting that the service which is a fundamental issue in legal practice, defective as they were served at a location not specified in an earlier directive issued by the court for the substituted service of court processes on the affected governors.

Attempts by a team of another set of senior advocates of Nigeria, led by Dr.  Alex Izinyon and Mr. Damian Dodo, to get the defected governors lawyers to accept service on behalf of their respective clients collapsed as the lawyers declined such and compelled the court presided by Justice Gabriel Kolawole to adjourn hearing of the substantive matter.

With the forthcoming general election slated for early 2015, the PDP is desperate to reclaim the offices of the defected governors who were elected on the party's platform.

Hearing of the substantive matter may also not be possible on the next adjourned date of 24th February given that the defected governors lawyers had filed applications aimed at truncating the determination of the suit.

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