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Judge adjourns case to Sept 30.
Hearing on the case filed by the National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Bamanga Tukur, and 11 others against the Kawu Baraje faction of the party, was aborted on Friday, at the Federal High Court, Abuja.
Mr. Tukur and other members of the National Working Committee, NWC, who were elected at the Special National Convention on August 31, had instituted the case seeking to restrain Mr. Baraje and two others as executive members of the party.
The others are the factional deputy National Chairman, Sam Jaja, and factional National Secretary, Olagunsoye Oyinlola. A former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, who is a member of the faction, was also joined in the suit.
The late service of the plaintiffs’ response to the preliminary objection on the defendants stalled the plan by the parties to the suit to adopt their final written addresses.
The counsel to Mr. Baraje, Ahmed Raji, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, SAN, and those for Messrs Jaja and Oyinlola, Robert Clarke and E. R. Enukpoeuo, respectively informed Justice Elvis Chukwu that they needed time to study the plaintiff’s response because it was served late on them.
Consequently, they applied for adjournment which Tochukwu Onwubufor did not object to.
Mr. Chukwu subsequently adjourned the case to September 30, at 2 p.m.
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