CJN Wades Into PDP Judicial Ex Parte Rackets, Summons Six Chief Judges

The Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Tanko Muhammad, has waded into the controversy surrounding the conflicting ex parte orders concerning affairs in the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP given by three different courts across three states of the federation.

The CJN had against the developments in the PDP summoned the Chief Judges of Rivers, Kebbi, Cross River, Anambra, Jigawa and Imo State to an emergency meeting.

 GreenWhiteGreen GWG reports that within one week courts in Rivers, Kebbi and Cross River States issued ex parte orders removing and reinstating Prince Uche Secondus as national chairman of the PDP.

While a Rivers High Court barred Uche Secondus from parading himself as the party’s National Chairman or even as a member of the party, a Kebbi Court reinstated him last Thursday.

Hours later on Friday, another court in Cross River State barred him from functioning in that office or presiding over the affairs of the party’s National Executive Committee, NEC.

Wadding into the upheaval in the PDP, the CJN in a letter of invitation dated 30th of August, 2021, summoned the Chief Judges to brief him on the incessant granting of the conflicting orders on suits instituted by different political parties.

“My attention has been drawn to media reports to the effect that some courts of coordinate jurisdictions were granting conflicting exparte orders on the same subject matter.”

“It has become expedient for me to invite you for a detailed briefing on the development. This is even more compelling having regard to an earlier NJC warning to judicial officers on the need to be circumspect in granting ex parte applications,” the CJN said in an apparent move to check the judicial conflicts arising from the ex parte orders on the PDP crisis.

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