In a significant development, the Abia State High Court has intervened in the ongoing dispute between the Abia State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and Senator Adolphus Wabara, the National Chairman of the Board of Trustees. The court has stopped the enforcement of Wabara’s suspension as BoT Chairman, pending the determination of the motion on notice.
Justice L.T.C. Eruba, who presided over the matter, restrained Abraham Amah, the defendant, from laying claims to the Abia State chairmanship of the PDP and from enforcing Wabara’s suspension. The court’s order was in response to Wabara’s suit, marked HUK/8/2025, seeking to restrain Amah from enforcing the purported suspension.
The dispute began when Amah announced Wabara’s suspension, accusing him of anti-party activities, including praising Governor Alex Otti’s performance. However, a group known as PDP Frontiers for Change and Progress has denied claims made by a former Commissioner for Information, Abia State, John Okiyi Kalu, alleging that Wabara held a secret meeting with Governor Otti in London to discuss Otti’s possible defection to the PDP.
The National Coordinator of the PDP pro-group, Mr. Emeka Yellow Ikpegbu, has challenged Kalu to provide evidence of the alleged Wabara-Otti London meeting. Ikpegbu argued that even if efforts were made to woo Governor Otti to the PDP, such efforts were not strange in politics and should not pose a threat to any genuine lover of the party.
