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The Federal High Court in Abuja on Friday declined to grant an application filed by former Jigawa governor, Sule Lamido, to stop the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, from proceeding with its scheduled National Convention.
Lamido, in the motion ex parte moved by his lawyer, Jeph Njikonye, SAN, prayed the court to make the interim order, pending the hearing and determination of the motion on notice.
Justice Peter Lifu, in a ruling, ordered the PDP and the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, who are defendants in the suit, to come and show cause why the ex-governor’s reliefs should not be granted.
The former governor, who is the plaintiff in the fresh suit marked: FHC/ABJ/CS/2299/2025, named the PDP and INEC as 1st and 2nd defendants.
DAILY POST had earlier reported that Governor Bala Mohammed of Bauchi State, on Friday led some PDP chieftains to the Federal High Court, Abuja, ahead of a ruling on the party’s National Convention.
