August 3, 2013 by Ihuoma Chiedozie, Abuja.
An Abuja High Court on Friday vacated an order restraining the Peoples Democratic Party from holding its planned convention.
The court, presided by Justice Suleiman Belgore, had on July 25, 2013, stopped the convention while ruling in a suit filed by three aggrieved members of the party.
However, Justice Belogore vacated the order, and also struck out the suit, after the plaintiffs – Abba Yale, Yahaya Sule and Bashir Maigudu – decided to discontinue with the case.
The plaintiffs withdrew the suit after first replacing their lawyer, Jibrin Okutepa, SAN, with Mr. Friday Nwosu.
Okutepa was apparently not notified of his replacement as at the time Nwosu came to announce appearance for the plaintiffs when the court resumed to hear the matter on Monday.
The confusion thrown up by the disagreement between Okutepa and Nwosu had forced the court to adjourn the matter till September 23, 2013, when the judge expected that the plaintiffs would have resolved the dispute over their counsel.
But Justice Belgore summoned the parties involved in the suit to appear before him on Friday after the plaintiffs, through Nwosu, applied to discontinue the matter.
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