An Ekiti State High Court, Ado Ekiti Division has nullified the appointment of the Peoples Democratic Party Caretaker Committee in the state.

Justice Olusegun Ogunyemi reinstated the State Working Committee of the party led by Alaba Agboola.

The party’s National Working Committee had in June dissolved the party’s executives in the state and constituted a caretaker committee under the chairmanship of Sadiq Obanoye.

Dissatisfied with the dissolution, the Agboola-led SWC filed a suit with number HAD/90/2023 against the PDP acting National Chairman, Umar Damagun, and two others.

In the judgment on Tuesday,Justice Ogunyemi declared the dissolution of the Ekiti State Executive Committee of the party null and void and sacked the caretaker committee appointed by the NWC.

The judge granted an order of perpetual injunction “restraining Damagun and the PDP, their agents or any person or body of persons acting under the directives or instruction of the first and second defendants from recognising or further recognising the third defendant (Obanoye) and the other members of the Ekiti State PDP caretaker committee as persons entitled to the affairs of the Ekiti State Chapter of the PDP.”

The court also granted an order of perpetual injunction “restraining Obanoye (third defendant) and other members of the Ekiti State PDP caretaker committee from parading themselves as Ekiti State caretaker committee of the PDP as well as running the affairs of the Ekiti State chapter of the PDP.” (The PUNCH)