Appeal Court faults high court judge over PDP caretaker committee ruling in Ibadan

The Court of Appeal successful Abuja has faulted Justice Uche Ogomoh of the Federal High Court successful Ibadan for granting reliefs that were not sought by immoderate of the parties successful a quality involving the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.

In a judgement delivered by Justice Uchechukwu Onyemenam of the Court of Appeal, the appellate tribunal held that the proceedings justice went beyond the reliefs earlier her erstwhile she recognised a factional caretaker committee successful the PDP enactment crisis.

The quality stems from a judgement delivered by Justice Ogomoh connected January 30, successful which she held that the PDP caretaker committee led by Abdurahman Mohammed and Samuel Anyanwu was the morganatic faction of the party.

The Court of Appeal said nary of the parties had sought specified a declaration.

“In the instant case, determination is intelligibly a unrecorded contented wherever the proceedings tribunal went extracurricular the reliefs sought to recognise and uphold a factional caretaker committee,” Onyemenam said.

The appellate tribunal added that if the declaratory and injunctive reliefs sought connected entreaty had not been tied to the legitimacy of the Ibadan normal already nullified by the Supreme Court, it would person ordered a retrial connected the enactment organs purportedly created oregon validated by the convention.

“Once the Convention itself has been pronounced null, void and of no...