Wike Wins First Round In Fight With Atiku Ahead Of PDP NEC

Subsequently, he became a familiar fixture in the Atiku Camp.

PDP which has been in comatose for much of the period since it lost the last presidential election is aiming to revive itself with statutory meetings including the National Caucus scheduled for April 17 and the NEC on April 18.

Ahead of the meetings, a member of the party, Titus Jones obtained an ex parte order from Justice Ekwo asking the court to bar the PDP from inviting Prince Secondus to the National Caucus.

Apparently, Secondus is the first defendant in the suit that has the PDP, acting national chairman, Amb Umar Damagun, Senator Samuel Anyanwu, National Executive Committee, NEC, the Board of Trustees, BoT and the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC as second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh defendants.

It was gathered that the applications specifically requested that the principal officials of the party, notably the National Secretary should not invite Secondus for the National Caucus and the NEC meetings.

Justice Ekwo stated this in giving his order ;

Order is hereby made restraining the 1^st defendant from demanding for any notice of National Caucus meetings or meetings of the National Executive Committee (5^th Defendant) or Board of Trustees (7^thDefendant) or any other meetings of the 2^ndDefendant from the 4^th Defendant pending the hearing and determination of the Motion on Notice.

Apparently, the court also ordered Secondus not to demand to be invited to the NEC meetings in what is seen as a move by the Wike camp to undermine the camp of Atiku.