The Court of Appeal, Abuja division, on Thursday, refused to grant an application brought before it by  a former Political Adviser to  former President Goodluck Jonathan,  Alhaji Ahmad Gulak, seeking to stop the acting national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Prince Uche Secondus, from operating in that capacity.

Gulak, through his counsel, Jibrin Okutepa,  is seeking an interlocutory injunction restraining Secondus from continuing to act as the national chairman of  PDP.

PDP and Secondus, represented by Emeka Etiaba, also filed a motion for the court to make an order to  stay the execution of the judgement and order of a High Court of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).

The court struck out Gulak’s application for stay of execution of the decision of the High Court of FCT, while that by PDP and Secondus for a stay of order was adjourned till February 22.

It will  be  recalled that a High Court of FCT, had in a judgment, ordered PDP to fill the vacant seat of national chairman of the party within 14 days and further ordered that the person to be so appointed must come from the North East region of the country.

Gulak and his group have been claiming that the court directed them to take over.

Secondus is acting as the national chairman of  PDP, a position he occupied by virtue of his current substantive position as the deputy national chairman of the party in line with the constitution of PDP.

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