Ortom Secures Interim Injunction Restraining PDP From Expelling him

Samuel Ortom, governor of Benue, has secured a court order barring the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) from expelling him as a member of the party.

A.I. Itoyonyiman, judge of a Benue state high court, gave the order on Thursday following a suit marked MHC/46/2023, brought before the court on Wednesday.

The PDP and Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) are listed in the suit as the first and second defendants, respectively.

In its ruling, the court issued an interim order of injunction restraining the PDP from “expelling, suspending or levying any other punishment” on Ortom “pending the determination of the motion on notice for interlocutory injunction”.

The interim injunction by the court also restrained INEC from receiving any communication from the PDP seeking his disqualification as the party’s candidate for Benue north-west senatorial district in the 2023 general election, pending the determination of the suit.

The development comes days after Nyesom Wike, governor of Rivers and an ally of Ortom, secured a court order also restraining the PDP from expelling him from the party.