A Federal High Court in Abuja has ordered the former aide to ex-Vice President Atiku Abubakar, Segun Sowunmi, to paste court processes he filed against the Damagum-led Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) at the party’s National Secretariat in Abuja.
Justice Bolaji Olajuwon gave the order, yesterday, while delivering his ruling on an ex-parte motion for substituted service by Sowunmi (the plaintiff).
Lawyer to Sowunmi, Anderson Asemota, had informed the court that his client was having problems in effecting service of court processes on six out of the eight defendants in the suit.
Justice Olajuwon consequently ordered substituted service and directed Sowunmi to serve the suit’s originating processes on the second to seven defendants.
In the suit, marked: FHC/ABJ/CS/70/2024, Sowunmi wants the court to, among others, restrain PDP’s National Chairman, Umar Damagum, and other national leaders of the party, from further acting in their official capacities given their alleged failure to convene the mandatory National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting for over a year now.
He stated that since the meeting was last held on September 8, 2022, during the tenure of the sacked Chairman, Iyorchia Ayu, the new leadership, under Damagum, has failed to convene NEC meetings to enable its members to review the party’s activities, take critical decisions and plan for future elections, despite demands by concerned party members.
