NewsNigeriaPoliticsHigh Court Sacks Taraba PDP State Chairman

The Chairman of, Taraba State People’s Democratic Party, PDP chapter, Abubakar Bawa has been sacked from office by the High Court of Justice in the state.

The court which ordered the reinstatement of Alhaji Inuwa Bakari as acting chairman of the party, described the occupation of the office by the former Chairman as “invalid, unconstitutional, null and void”.

The judgment given by Justice Nuhu S. Adi said “By the provisions of article 47(6) of the PDP constitution, the power to appoint the person to fill the vacancy created by the resignation of the outgoing Taraba State chairman of the People’s Democratic Party is the Taraba State Executive Committee and not the National Working Committee of the defendant”.

It further said: “that the appointment of the 2nd defendant, Abubakar Bawa by the National Working Committee of the 1st defendant as the substantive chairman of the Taraba State chapter of the 1st defendant is invalid, unconstitutional, null and void.

“That the 1st defendant is bound by law to observe and comply with the provisions of article 47(6) of the 1st defendant’s constitution in the appointment of a substantive chairman for the Taraba State chapter of the 1st defendant.

“That the purported appointment of the 2nd defendant, Abubakar Bawa as the substantive chairman of the Taraba State chapter of the 1st defendant is hereby set aside”.

“The 2nd defendant, Abubakar Bawa, his agents, servants or proxies by whatsoever name called are restrained from occupying, continuing to occupy, functioning, acting, performing the role or assuming the status and office of the chairman of Taraba State chapter of the 1st defendant”.

“The 3rd plaintiff, Alhaji Inuwa Bakari shall continue to act as chairman of the Taraba State chapter of the 1st defendant under article 45 (2) and (4) of the defendant’s constitution”.

The embattled chairman, Bawa, had in March assumed the position of the chairman of the Taraba chapter of the PDP.

But the deputy chairman of the party, Alhaji Inuwa Bakari, who took over as acting chairman upon the resignation of Agbu Kefas (now governor of the state), approached the Federal High Court Jalingo in May in a suit number: TRSJ/62/2023 had Ibrahim Abdullahi, Shaning S. Moses, and Alhaji Inuwa Bakari as plaintiffs, while the People’s Democratic Party and Abubakar Bawa are the defendants seeking the declaration of the appointment of Bawa as null and void.