Nigeria: Huriwa Wants Supreme Court to Resolve PDP's Crisis Rapidly

25 April 2017

A major pro-democracy and civil rights body, Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA), has urged the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Walter Onoghen, to ensure that the subsisting intra-party leadership crisis in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is decided rapidly.

The rights group in a statement jointly signed by the National Coordinator, Emmanuel Onwubiko, and the National Media Affairs Director, Miss. Zainab Yusuf, submitted that the delay in adjudicating the leadership crises in courts has contributed to weakening democracy in Nigeria.

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