PDP Convention: Tukur, Party served ruling, to appeal Judgment

ABUJA- NATIONAL leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP will
on Monday appeal the judgment of an Abuja High Court whichon Thursday
aborted the planned Special National Convention of the party for
the purpose of electing its national officers.
Vanguard gathered yesterday that the PDP National Chairman, Alhaji
Bamanga Tukur and the party were yesterday served the papers of the
Apo High Court judgement.
According to the source, Tukur and other members of the National
Working Committee, NWC were not happy with the development and not to
waste time, the acting National Legal Adviser, Simon Jok was
immediately asked to work out plans of appealing the judgment on
Mondayas a way of setting aside the decision of the court and the
convention to hold as planned.
All efforts to get the PDP acting National Publicity Secretary, Tony
Caeser Okeke to speak on the matter proved abortive as his telephone
rag severally, but did not pick.
The party had fixed the Special National Convention for August 31st at
the Eagle Square, Abuja and August 24th for the South West Congress.
It will be recalled that the court, in a ruling delivered on
Thursday, restrained the party from carrying out any action with a
view to filling vacancies in its national structure, pending the
hearing and determination ofa suit filed against it by three aggrieved
members.
The Professor Jerry Gana led Special Convention Planning Committee
issaddled with the responsibility of organising the Convention by the
PDP National Executive Committee, NEC,
The Court while dismissing a preliminary objection that sought to
terminate further hearing on the suit brought against the party by
Abba Yale, Yahaya Sule and Bashir Maidugu, Justice Suleiman Belgore
accused PDP of deliberately attempting to usurp the powers of the
court by fixing a date to hold its national convention despite being
aware that a case bordering on such subject matter was pending before
the court.
The court's decision came barely twenty four hours after Alhaji
Bamanga Tukur, inaugurated the Special National Convention Planning
Committee.