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A Federal High Court in Abuja will on Monday, September 30, 2013 hear an application seeking to join President Goodluck Jonathan, nine key members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as well as the party in a contempt suit.
According to THE SUN, President Jonathan and others in a joiner application filed by a firm, Bedding Holdings Limited (BHL), were accused of unlawful use of patented ballot boxes for the party’s last special convention, without the consent of BHL, which is the patent owner.
Those included in the suit are, National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Bamanga Tukur, Chairman of the Special Convention Committee, Prof. Jerry Gana, and Chairman of the Convention Electoral Committee, Ken Nnamani .
However, the company filed a fresh application in which the list was expanded to include the chairman of the party’s Board of Trustees, Tony Anenih, Delta State Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan, who acted as Chairman, PDP Essential Electoral Materials Committee, and the Chairman of the Police Service Commission, Mike Okiro, who served as Chairman, PDP Special National Convention Sub-Committee on Security.
BHL stated that the ground for its application was that Jonathan and others “are serial contemnors, who contemptuously connived with sixth and seventh defendants/respondents (the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC and its Chairman, Professor Attahiru Jega)” to use the applicant’s transparent ballot boxes for the PDP’s convention in violation of a subsisting judgment of the court delivered on June 5, 2012 by Justice Adamu Bello.
It argued that except the president and others were joined in the case, in view of “the pivotal role” they allegedly played in the disobedience of a valid and subsisting court judgement, the contempt proceeding would not be “effectively and effectually determined".