PDP legal advisor dumps party in suit including APC, INEC
Mr Ferdinand Orbih (SAN), counsel to the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the political matter involving the party, the All Progressives Congress, APC, and the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, in Rivers, says he has withdrawn his legal services to the party.
NAN reports that Orbih, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria SAN, announced his withdrawal on Wednesday in Port Harcourt during the Court of Appeal sitting.
He said his withdrawal from the political matter was personal and on “compassionate ground”.
The SAN had on Feb. 5, argued that the court should not entertain APC’s appeal against the judgment of Justice Kolawole Omotosho of the Federal High Court Judgment of Jan. 7 barring APC from presenting candidates for the general elections
He had argued that APC brought the lower court record of proceeding directly instead of the court registrar.
Orbih said that his withdrawal did not affect the applications he had filed before the court.
“My name is on the applications; withdrawal of appearance and not withdrawal of any application.
“If there is the need to contribute, I will. I am not a frivolous person,” he said.
Mr Prince Azunda and Mustapha Ibrahim, counsels to APC, argued that there should be “consequence for the withdrawal”.
They contended that Orbih’s withdrawal amounted to a defeat of his applications.
“There must be a consequence of his withdrawal,” they said.
Ruling on the issue of withdrawal, Justice Ali Gumail, the lead judge, said it was the SAN’s constitutional right as ‘‘there is no urgency in this matter.”
The court adjourned until Feb. 13 for pending motions to enable PDP to get a replacement for Orbih.
The SAN told reporters outside the court room that there was no under current in his withdrawal, adding that he had his “professional philosophy”.
Also, The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has affirmed that the decision All Progressives Congress, APC, had wanted to utilize the uncollected Permanent Voters’ Cards, PVCs, to designate votes to President Muhammadu Buhari.
In an announcement yesterday night by the National Publicity Secretary of the gathering, Mr. Kola Ologbondiyan, the primary resistance party spoke to the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, for augmentation of time by three days for accumulation of the PVCs.
The gathering said the interest of three days expansion was predicated on reports the nation over that some traded off INEC authorities at the accumulation focuses were intentionally declining to issue the PVCs to voters, in this way baffling a large number of enlisted voters.
As indicated by him, “The PDP trusts this purposeful refusal to discharge the PVCs is a piece of the more extensive plot by the APC to disappoint a large number of Nigerians and baffle their energy to cast a ballot out President Buhari at the February 16 presidential decision and choose the people groups hopeful, Atiku Abubakar.”
The gathering requested clarification from INEC for turning back enrolled voters who went to gather their PVCs and guided them to come at a later date for an activity that is modified to finish on Friday.
It additionally approached the authority of INEC not to dive the decision into an unnecessary discussion yet to make up for itself by broadening the end date for the gathering of PVCs by three days.
Meanwhile, The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, presidential hopeful, Atiku Abubakar, has cautioned the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and security organizations against meddling in the lead of February 16 and March 2 general decisions, as any endeavor will be unequivocally stood up to.
The presidential applicant passed on the notice at a PDP crusade rally hung on Wednesday in Damaturu, the Yobe State capital.
Abubakar, while tending to the mammoth horde of supporters, stated, “Individuals of Yobe State, three and the half years, you have casted a ballot APC and I need to ask, what has APC done to you? APC has guaranteed to reestablish security, give work and restore the nation’s economy all have bombed in this way exposing you to servile destitution, craving and frailty among others.
“Individuals of Yobe State, all Nigerians have rolled out a positive improvement; try not to be deserted. Try not to commit the error of re-choosing APC once more,” he cautioned.
He guaranteed the electorate that, whenever chose into power, his legislature will be only for youth and ladies, saying, choosing him as president was an uncommon open door for individuals of Northeast since he originated from the locale.
The previous Vice President likewise cautioned security offices and the constituent umpire against meddling in the lead of the general decisions
On his part, the PDP National Chairman, Uche Secondus, said the undeniable trend blowing the country over has touched base in Yobe State.
“By the order of customary individuals, I accept and persuade for the benefit of the administration of the gathering that your votes will rely on the February sixteenth and March second. In this way, turn out in your numbers to cast a ballot and shield it,” he asked.
The National director affirmed that INEC intended to utilize manual gathering of results rather than e-resemblance in Borno and Yobe States, guaranteeing that will give space for results control.
He guaranteed the general population of the express that Atiku Abubakar won’t let them down as he has every one of the encounters to lead the country to a more prominent stature.
