Eric Ikhilae, Abuja
A FEDERAL High Court in Abuja has rejected a suit by the national headquarters of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) challenging the power of the Ogun State chapter of the party to conduct congresses.
In a judgment on Tuesday, in a suit marked: FHC/ABJ/CS/208/2020, Justice Ahmed Mohammed held that the case was an invitation to his court to sit on appeal over a question already determined in 2016 by another judge of the same Federal High Court.
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Justice Mohammed, who declined jurisdiction over the case, held that the subsisting judgment delivered on June 24, 2016 by Justice I. N. Buba in a suit marked: FHC/L/CS/636/2016 has resolved the question on whether or not the Ogun State PDP EXCO could conduct congresses.
The judge, who noted that the 2016 suit was filed in the Lagos division of the court by Chief Adebayo Dayo as Ogun State Chairman and on behalf of the state PDP EXCO, held that parties in both the old and new cases are the same. He struck out the new suit.
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