A Federal High Court sitting in Port Harcourt, Rivers State has stopped the Peoples Democratic Party from holding their proposed governorship primaries slated for Thursday, June 25.
This was following a suit brought before the court on Monday, June 22 by one of the governorship aspirants of the PDP, Omoregie Ogbeide-Ihama, who had vowed not to step down for Governor Godwin Obaseki.
The presiding judge granted the experte order and allowed the defendant to serve the parties in the suit through substituted means, in two national dailies, and adjourned the case till June 24 for hearing of the summon.
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