Patience Jonathan panics as court suspends Bayelsa PDP chairman

Patience Jonathan panics as court suspends Bayelsa PDP chairman

First Lady, Dame Patience Jonathan, is in panic
mood, following the suspension of the Chairman of
Bayelsa State Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Colonel
Sam Inokoba (rtd), by a Federal High Court in Abuja.

Inokoba is Patience Jonathan’s ‘stooge’ in the state
PDP who she intends to use to deny Governor
Seriake Dickson the party ticket for the governorship
election.

Justice Valentine Ashi ordered Inokoba to stop
parading himself as the chairman, pending the
determination of the motion of notice before the
court.

The embattled Inokoba had earlier been suspended
by the state chapter of the PDP over financial
recklessness.

Since then, he had refused to vacate office, insisting
that it was only the National Chairman, Alhaji
Adamu Mu’azu, who could suspend him.

Following the impasse, seven members of the party
in the South-South state – Cleopas Moses, Godspower
Kuku, Richard Perekeme, Faith Opene, Alfred I.
Atiegha, Numomikari Walter and Ikpi Patterson –
went to court, seeking, among other reliefs, an order
of interim injunction restraining Inokoba, his
agents, privies, or appointees from parading himself
as Bayelsa State PDP chairman, pending the
determination of the motion on notice.

Justice Ashi ordered that the “interim order of
injunction earlier granted on March 23 is hereby
declared to subsist and shall remain in force as
binding on the defendants pending the hearing and
determination of the motion on notice.”