{"id":87767,"date":"2021-10-29T18:03:15","date_gmt":"2021-10-29T17:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=87767"},"modified":"2021-10-30T06:23:54","modified_gmt":"2021-10-30T05:23:54","slug":"you-cant-stop-pdp-the-convention-appeal-court-tells-secondus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/you-cant-stop-pdp-the-convention-appeal-court-tells-secondus\/","title":{"rendered":"You can&#8217;t stop the PDP convention, Appeal Court tells Secondus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">An Appeal Court sitting in Port Harcourt has dismissed the appeal of the suspended national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Uche Secondus seeking an interim injunction to restrain the PDP from conducting its national convention billed for Saturday and Sunday, October 30 and 31, 2021, in Abuja.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The three-man panel dismissed the appeal which was filed on October 14, 2021, for lacking in merit.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The judgement was read by Justice Gabriel Kolawale which was unanimously endorsed by the other two members of the panel.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Meanwhile, Rep. Kingsley Chinda (PDP-Rivers), the leader of the Peoples Democratic Party Caucus in the House of Representatives has described the dismissal of the suit filed by suspended National Chairman, Mr Uche Secondus\u2019 against the party as victory for democracy.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"m_-3672105292307024898gmail-vid-container0\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<div id=\"m_-3672105292307024898gmail-avantisContainer0\">\n<div>\n<div id=\"m_-3672105292307024898gmail-avntsPlayer0\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Chinda, in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria on Friday in Abuja, said that neither Secondus nor the PDP won the case, saying that the victory was for all Nigerians.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Chinda assured that regardless of the outcome of the judgment, Secondus was going to work closely with the party to enthrone good leaders in future elections.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cIt is a welcome development and strengthens our democracy to restate that power belongs to the people.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Appeal Court sitting in Port Harcourt has dismissed the appeal of the suspended national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Uche Secondus seeking an interim injunction to restrain the&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":87768,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exclusive"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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