PRESS RELEASE BY FESTUS KEYAMO CHAMBERS:

COURT RESTORES SUSPENDED PDP CHAIRMAN AND SECRETARY OF ADAMAWA STATE AND STOPS PARTY FROM USING DOCTORED LIST OF AD-HOC DELEGATES FOR ITS GUBER PRIMARIES

Kindly find attached two court orders issued by the Chief Judge of Adamawa State, the Honourable Justice I.K. Banu, on Friday, November 28, 2014 in respect of developments in the Peoples Democratic Party in Adamawa State.
The court orders were made in the following cases:

(A)      SUIT NO. ADSY/141/2014: CHIEF JOEL H. MADAKI & ANOR V. PEOPLES DEMOCRATIC PARTY &  ANOR
(B)      SUIT NO. ADSY/142/2014: CHIEF JOEL H. MADAKI & ANOR V. SENATOR BALA ADAMU & 6 ORS

The orders are to the effect that:

(a)     The suspended Chairman and Secretary of Adamawa State Chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, namely, Chief Joel H. Madaki and Barrister Tahir A. Shehu respectively be restored to their offices forthwith and
 
(b)     That the list of ad-hoc delegates for the Adamawa Guber Primaries which was agreed upon by all stakeholders in that State and signed by the State Party Chairman and Secretary on the 1st day of November, 2014, is the authentic list that should be used for the Guber Primaries and not the doctored list submitted to the National Working Committee of the Party by the Ward Congresses Electoral Committee for Adamawa State.
 
For the avoidance of doubt, the following orders (as seen in the attachments) were made:

(1)         IN SUIT NO. ADSY/141/2014: CHIEF JOEL H. MADAKI & ANOR V. PEOPLES DEMOCRATIC PARTY &  ANOR
 
(a)    “The 1st Defendant (PDP) or any of its agents are hereby restrained in the interim from carrying into effect in any way the decision to suspend the Plaintiffs as Chairman and Secretary of Adamawa State Executive Committee of the 1st Defendant (PDP) taken on Tuesday, 18th November, 2014, pending the hearing and determination of the Motion on Notice.
 
 
(b)    The 2nd Defendant (INEC) is hereby restrained in the interim from recognizing any other group of persons other than the Plaintiffs (that is Chief Joel H. Madaki and Barrister Tahir A. Shehu respectively) as constituting the Chairman and Secretary of Adamawa State Executive Committee of the 1st Defendant for the period of January 2013 to January, 2017, pending the hearing and determination of the Motion on Notice.”
 
(2)         IN SUIT NO. ADSY/142/2014: CHIEF JOEL H. MADAKI & ANOR V. SENATOR BALA ADAMU & 6 ORS
 
(a)    “The 6th Defendant (PDP) or any of its organs are hereby restrained in the interim from accepting, recognizing, authenticating or acting upon any Ad-hoc Delegates List for the gubernatorial primary elections of the 6th Defendant for the 2015 Governorship election in Adamawa State other than the list of Ad-hoc Delegates adopted by the Plaintiffs, the 1st – 5th Defendants and other major stakeholders of the 6th Defendant in Adamawa State and signed by the Plaintiffs on the 1st of November, 2014, pending the hearing and determination of the Motion on Notice seeking an Order of Interlocutory Injunction in this suit.

(b)    The 7th Defendant (INEC) or any of its organs are hereby restrained in the interim from accepting, recognizing, authenticating or acting upon any result of a gubernatorial primary election in Adamawa State for the 2015 General Election other than the primary election conducted with the Ad-hoc Delegates List adopted by the Plaintiffs, the 1st – 5th Defendants and other major stakeholders of the 6th Defendant in Adamawa State and signed by the Plaintiffs on the 1st of November, 2014, pending the hearing and determination of the Motion on Notice seeking an Order of Interlocutory Injunction in this suit.”

Thank you.
 
FESTUS KEYAMO, ESQ.