“Abuse of Court”: Court Dismisses Suit Seeking to Re-instate Ayu as PDP Chair

…as he refuses to succumb to suspension threats

The presiding judge of the Benue state High Court sitting in Gboko, D.M Igyuse, has given his verdict on the suit seeking to reinstate Iyorchia Ayu as the national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
As reported by TheCable, Igyuse dismissed the suit, describing it as an abuse of the court process.

As reported by TheCable, Igyuse dismissed the suit, describing it as an abuse of the court process.

The judge stated this while delivering his ruling on Thursday, August 31.

One Nongo Ordue had filed the case on behalf of the 17-member executive of Ayu’s Igyorov council ward of Gboko LGA, asking the court to set aside the suspension of Ayu as a member of the PDP and reinstate him as the party’s national chairman.

However, counsel to the PDP, Clement Mue, argued that the suit constituted an abuse of the court process because a case marked MHC/85/2023 with similar issues filed before Maurice Ikpambese of the high court in Makurdi had sufficiently been addressed. In his judgement, Ikpambese ruled that Ayu could no longer be PDP national chairman having lost his party membership at his ward.

The judge noted that the plaintiffs had filed a similar claim in a suit marked GHC/36/2023 and was struck out by the High Court 3, Gboko, on June 27.

Igyuse, therefore, dismissed the case, describing it as “the worst form of abuse of court process”.

Meanwhile, Legit.ng reported that the embattled national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Senator Iyorchia Ayu, says his ward leaders in his constituency in Benue state do not have the statutory power to suspend him.

Senator Ayu hails from the Igyorov Ward in the Gboko local government area of Benue State.