By Pauline Onyibe
Abuja (Precise Post) – A Federal High Court sitting in Yenagoa, the Bayelsa State capital, has fixed October 7 for hearing in the suit filed by the former Managing Director of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Chief Ndutimi Alaibe, against the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), which produced Senator Douye Diri, as the governorship candidate of the party for the November 16 gubernatorial election in the state.
The court presided over by Justice Jane Iyang also issued an order for substituted service on the respondents after complaint by the counsel to PDP that they have not been properly served.
In the suit, Alaibe, who was the first runner-up in the governorship primary of the PDP is in court over what he called the “failure of the party to comply with the provisions of the Electoral Act, the PDP constitution and its guidelines.”
Speaking after the court appearance yesterday, Mr. Nemoye Maxwell-Brown, the counsel to the respondents, said the appearance before the court was to hear the application of the applicant for substituted service. “Although, we know there was no attempt to serve us. The application was heated and granted.
