By Tony Edike
THE interim order of the Enugu State High Court granted by Justice Reuben Onuorah upon which the National Chairman of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP was asked to step aside during the party’s presidential primaries at Eagle Square Abuja on Thursday is yet to be discharged contrary to claims by Nwodo’s lawyers.

Director of Litigations and Court’s Decision at the Enugu State High Court, Barrister Vincent Aneke, insisted when contacted yesterday that the said order which restrained Nwodo from parading himself as a member and Chairman of the PDP subsists.

“To the best of my knowledge, the order made by Hon. Justice Onuorah on Nwodo’s status in PDP was not discharged by the judge and nobody except the said judge can discharge or vacate it. The court did not sit today and nothing has changed,”  Aneke said while responding to Vanguard’s enquiries on telephone yesterday.

The development continued to generate dusts in the political camp of Nwodo in his Enugu home-state as his followers especially those he nominated as Senatorial, State and National Assembly candidates for Enugu North senatorial district under the peace pact brokered by President Goodluck Jonathan could not determine their fate.

Vanguard learnt that serving members of the National Assembly who were denied re-return tickets on account of Nwodo’s decision to handpick candidates from the zone were said to have commenced moves in Abuja to get the PDP National Working Committee to conduct fresh primaries in various constituencies in the zone.

Leading the move is the senate spokesperson and senator representing Enugu North, Chief Ayogu Eze who had repeatedly faulted Nwodo’s decision to nominate the party’s candidates from his zone without normal primaries.

On their part, the Okey Ogbonna-led state executive committee of the party loyal to the embattled PDP National Chairman, yesterday, condemned in strong terms the purported interim injunction issued by Justice Onuorah against the person and office of Dr. Nwodo as the party leader.

“We also condemn in totality the complicity of the Enugu State government under Barrister Sullivan Chime in the plot to restrain the National Chairman of our great party from office in order to disrupt the conduct of a free, fair and credible presidential primary election of the party held on December 13, 2010,” the party said in a communiqué issued at the end of its meeting in Enugu yesterday.

The communiqué signed by Ceasar Okey Ogbonna and Harrison Ogara, Chairman and Publicity Secretary of the party, also said that the state chapter of the party “shall continue to thwart all agreements reached by the agents of the state government to ensure that a credible candidate did not emerge from our presidential primary election.”

It further declared the purported State House of Assembly, National Assembly and Governorship primaries conducted from January 11 to 12 “by the already dissolved Engr. Vita Abba-led executives and agents of the state government as illegal.”

Meanwhile, the six governorship aspirants of the party who boycotted the primary election continued with their meetings in Enugu yesterday but none of them could speak on their decision or their next line of action since Governor Chime had grabbed the party’s ticket for the April election.