The Court of Appeal sitting in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, has given the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) the go ahead to conduct its scheduled National Convention.
The PDP got the leeway after the court struck out the suit instituted by its suspended National Chairman, Prince Uche Secondus, seeking to stop the convention.
Secondus had approached the Court of Appeal in Port Harcourt to challenge his removal as the party’s national chairman.
He also asked the court to stop the party from holding its National Convention, which it scheduled for October 30 and October 31, 2021 in Abuja.
However, the Court of Appeal, in its verdict Friday, ruled in favour of the PDP to hold its National Convention as scheduled.
The three-man panel dismissed the appeal filed on October 14, for lacking in merit.
The judgment was read by Justice Gabriel Kolawale, and concurred by the other two justices on the panel.
The panel ruled that Secondus voluntarily relinquished his office, having failed to challenge his removal at the ward and local government levels.