The Court of Appeal in Abuja has set aside key aspects of a Federal High Court judgment that recognised a factional caretaker committee in the Peoples Democratic Party holding that the trial court granted reliefs that were never sought by any of the parties to the suit.
In a judgment delivered by Justice Uchechukwu Onyemenam, on Wednesday, a certified true copy of which was obtained on Friday, the appellate court faulted Justice Uche Agomoh of the Federal High Court, Ibadan, for going beyond the issues placed before the court in a dispute arising from the PDP leadership crisis.
Justice Agomoh had, in a judgment delivered on January 30, recognised the caretaker committee led by Abdurahman Mohammed and Samuel Anyanwu as the legitimate leadership faction of the party. However, the Court of Appeal held that none of the parties before the lower court had sought such a declaration.
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