“The defendants/respondents by themselves, agents, privies or by any proxy, are hereby in the interim, restrained from according recognition to any person other than Ambassador Umar Illiya Damagum as acting national chairman of the 1st defendants/respondents or giving effect to or acting upon any document purporting to be signed by the national chairman or acting national chairman of the 1st defendant without the name and signature of Ambassador Umar Illiya Damagum pending the hearing and determination of the motion on notice already filed in Court in the instant suit.
“The applicants are herein ordered to enter into a fresh undertaking to pay damages to the respondents (to be assessed by the court) if at the end of the day it is discovered that this order ought not to have been granted or that the honourable court was misled into granting the same.”
The court gave the order in a motion ex-parte filed by Senator Umar El-Gash Maina and Alhaji Zanna Gaddama, in a suit marked: FHC/ABJ/CS/579/2024.
The respondents in the motion filed on May 2, 2024, are the PDP, National Working Committee (NWC) of the party, National Executive Committee (NEC), Board of Trustees (BoT) and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).
