The National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Prince Uche Secondus, on Monday night said he is not aware of the suit removing him as chairman, saying that if he or “the party are taken to court, they will defend themselves.”
A statement from Secondus’s Media Office, while stating that “PDP and Secondus are not afraid of court,” noted that “this party is a child of history, owned by Nigerians, bigger than any individual or group including desperadoes.”
The full statement reads: “The Media office of the National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has been inundated with calls from media houses on a press statement sent to newsrooms by one Kelvin Ebiri, Special Assisatant Media to the Rivers state Governor, Bar Nysom Wike announcing that “Court Restrains Secondus from Parading as National Chairman, Member of PDP”.
“Our reaction- “If Secondus and the party are taken to court they will defend themselves. PDP and Secondus are not afraid of court, this party is a child of history, owned by Nigerians, bigger than any individual or group including desperadoes.”
Earlier, a statement emanating from the Office of the Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, who is the main protagonist in the fight to remove Prince Secondus from office, stated that the High Court of Rivers State on Monday had stopped the embattled Prince Secondus from parading himself as National Chairman or member of the the PDP.
Hon. Justice O. Gbasam of the Degema Judicial Division Vacation Court sitting in Port Harcourt granted the injunction following a suit No: PHC/2183/CS/2021 filed by Ibeawuchi Ernest Alex, Dennis Nna Amadi, Emmanuel Stephen and Umezirike Onucha against Uche Secondus (1st defendant) and the PDP (2nd defendant).
After listening to the submission of the applicants, the judge granted the interim injunction restraining Secondus from parading himself as the National Chairman of the PDP.
The order read: “An order restraining the 1st Defendant from parading himself as member of the 2nd Defendant or the National Chairman of the Defendant or performing the functions of national chairman of the 2nd defendant or calling, attending or presiding over any meeting of the 2nd defendant or any committee of the 2nd defendant at the Ward, Local Government or State level or calling for any Ward, Local Government or State Congress of the 2nd defendant or setting up committees for such Congresses or participating in any activity of the 2nd defendant whatsoever whilst on suspension as a member of the 2nd defendant pending the hearing and determination of the motion on notice for interlocutory injunction.”
The judge further granted leave to serve, by substituted, means the originating summons, motion on notice, all orders made by the court and all subsequent processes on the respondent by pasting same on his gate at No.1 William Jumbo Street, Old G.R.A Port Harcourt.