The lawsuit was between Ayu (appellant) and Terhide Utaan and the PDP as the respondent.
By Jeffrey Agbo
The suspended national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Iyorchia Ayu, has pulled back a lawsuit he filed challenging his removal from the position.
The suit is believed to have impeded the PDP from having a substantive national chairman since 2023 when a High Court sitting in Makurdi, the capital of Benue State, stopped Ayu from parading himself as the party’s leader.
In a notice of withdrawal of appeal tagged CA/MK/88/2024 SUIT NO: MHC/85/2023 dated April 15, made available to the news media on Wednesday, the Court of Appeal in Makurdi, Benue State capital, revealed that Ayu had withdrawn the appeal against the respondents filed on June 27, 2023 via Notice of Appeal dated June 26, 2023.
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The lawsuit was between Ayu (appellant) and Terhide Utaan and the PDP as the respondent.
It read in part, “Take notice that the appellant herein intends and doth hereby wholly withdraw the appeal against the respondents filed on the 27th day of June 2023 vide Notice of Appeal dated the 26th day of June 2023.”
The withdrawal of the suit is said to be part of efforts to pave the way for the former Benue State governor Gabriel Suswam, to replace Ayu as substantive chairman of PDP.
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