I have not been served any court order, says Nwodo

The presiding Judge, Reuben Onuorah, of the Enugu State  High Court has ordered the PDP national chairman, Okwesilieze Nwodo, to stop “parading himself as chairman of the party.”

PDP national chairman, Okwesilieze Nwodo sacked

The Judge ruled that Nwodo should stop functioning as chairman and enjoying any benefits from the position, pending the determination of motion on notice for interlocutory injunction.

Justice Onuorah granted the order following a motion ex-parte in suit number E/449/2010 filed by Mr. Collins Amalu (the plaintiff) and supported by a written address and an affidavit of 8 paragraphs he sworn to requesting that Nwodo be removed from the party on the grounds that he was not a card-carrying member of PDP.

Amalu who claimed to be a native of Okwe Amankwo, Ngwo, in Udi Local Government Area of Enugu State, same local government where Governor Chime hails from, was represented in the case by a team of lawyers led by Chief  Justina Offia, SAN.

Offia moved the motion on notice dated December 6, 2010 and filed by Amalu’s counsel Alh. Abdulaziz C. Ogbui.  In the application, the plaintiff sought “an order of interlocutory injunction restraining the defendant/respondent  (Dr. Okwesilieze Nwodo) from holding himself out, and or allowing himself to be held out, as a member of the Peoples Democratic Party (“Party”) and or an officer of the party, to wit — the national chairman of the party, and or exercising the rights, powers and or functions of a member and an officer of the party and or enjoying any privilege as a member and or officer of the party.

I have not been served any court order, says Nwodo

THE National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Dr. Okwesilieze Nwodo  has denied receiving any court order restraining from parading himself as chairman of the party.

Vanguard gathered  that when the court bailiff arrived the Wadata Plaza, National Secretariat of the party to serve Nwodo the court paper, security men stopped him from delivering the message.

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