Fresh suit seeks Mu’azu’s removal as PDP chairman

A member of the Peoples Democratic Party, Emmanuel Onu, has filed a fresh suit asking the Federal High Court in Abuja to remove Alhaji Adamu Mu’azu as the National Chairman of the party.

Onu asked the court to remove Mu’azu and reinstate the immediate past National Chairman of the party, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, whose resignation on January 15, 2014, the plaintiff argued failed to comply with the provisions of the party’s constitution.

Mu’azu was on January 15, appointed by the party’s National Executive Committee to succeed Turkur, who the plaintiff argued resigned under circumstances that never followed due process.

A lawyer and a member of the PDP, Ezionye Ndubuisi, had on September 23 filed a similar suit before the same court seeking an order sacking Mu’azu as the PDP National Chairman.

Ndubuisi had asked the court to remove Mu’azu on the grounds that he did not emerge as the National Chairman of the party through an election at a special convention of the party as stipulated by the party’s constitution. ...Punch