Fresh moves are under way to unseat the national chairman of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) Alhaji Adamu Mu’azu.
A member of the PDP, Emmanuel Onu, yesterday filed a fresh suit before a Federal High Court in Abuja asking the court to declare Mu’azu’s appointment as PDP national chairman illegal, Leadership reports.
He is begging the court to declare that the appointment of Mu’azu as the chairman is invalid and is in non-compliance with laid down procedure of Sections 45(1) and (2) of the 2012 constitution of the PDP and also the provisions of Section 85(1) and (3) of the 2010 Electoral Act of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and Section 223(1) of the 1999 Constitution.
Onu is asking the court to either reinstate the immediate past National Chairman of the party, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, who resigned on January 15, 2014 or order the deputy national chairman to pilot the affairs of PDP until the due process of electing a valid national chairman is complied with.
He argued that the purported resignation letter of Tukur presented by President Goodluck Jonathan to the National Executive Committee is in clear violation of Sections 47(5) and (6) of the 2012 Constitution of the PDP.
In a 15 paragraph affidavit, Onu averred that the appointment of Mu’azu as the national chairman was premature and unconstitutional, asking the court to stop Mu’azu from parading himself as the national chairman of the PDP and to also order INEC to stop further correspondence with Mu’azu.
This will be the second suit challenging the appointment of Mu’azu in two months.
Mu’azu was in January 2014, appointed national Chairman of the PDP by the party’s National Executive Committee after the former Chairman, Bamanga Tukur resigned.