Court sacks Makarfi PDP caretaker committee

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(Nigeria) Justice Ibrahim Buba of  theFederal High Court, Lagos has declared as invalid the caretaker committee constituted over the weekend to take over the affairs of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) from its acting National Chairman, Ali Modu Sheriff.

The PDP committee, headed by a former governor of Kaduna State,  Mohammad Makarfi, was appointed last Saturday after the party’s convention.
Members are  a former aide to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, Senator Ben Obi (national secretary), Sen. Odion Ugbesie, Sen. Abdul Ningi, Mr. Kabir Usman, Mr. Dayo Adeyeye and Alhaja Aisha Aliyu.
The trial judge gave the verdict in a ruling on Tuesday, directed the Inspector General of Police, IG,  Solomon Arase, to enforce his order and also arrest whoever parades himself as member of caretaker committee of the party
The suit was filed by the National Chairman of the party, Sheriff, the National Secretary, Adewale Oladipo and National Auditor, Fatai Adeyanju asking the court to stop the national convention pending the determination of the substantive suit.
While the respondents in the suit are PDP and the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC. 
Before the caretaker committee of the party was appointed over the weekend, the court had earlier, granted an order of interlocutory injunction, restraining the party and INEC from conducting any election into the offices of the National Chairman, National Secretary and National Auditor occupied by the 1st, 2nd and 3rd plaintiffs respectively, pending the hearing and determination of the substantive suit.
The court also restrained INEC from monitoring or recognising election into the offices occupied by the 1st, 2nd and 3rd plaintiffs respectively, pending the hearing and determination of the substantive suit.
In the suit, the three national officers averred that their tenures of office were yet to lapse.

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