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Court Orders PDP To Pay N105m Rent Arrears

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A High Court sitting in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State has ordered the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Bayelsa State chapter to pay the sum of N105 million outstanding arrears of rent to the landlord of its state secretariat complex, in Yenagoa.

Mr. Chubby Walson, the property owner and former Council Chairman of Yenagoa Local Government Area, dragged the PDP, Bayelsa State chapter to a State High Court last year for failure to pay accumulated rent arrears since 2010.

Justice T. Cocodia who delivering his judgement on Suit No: YNC/50/2019, on Thursday, Walson’s declaration, that he is entitled to payment of rent from the PDP for the use of his six-winged storey building located along Alamieyeseigha Expressway, Yenagoa, as Corporate Secretariat complex of the PDP from August 2008 till date.

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He ordered, “that the PDP should pay the landlord the sum of N85 million being the balance of unpaid rent from July 2010 to July 2018 for a six-winged storey building used as corporate secretariat of the party in Bayelsa State.”

Justice Cocodia also ordered the PDP to pay the due rent of N20 million to the landlord as rent from July 2018 to July 2019 if the matter transcends August 1, 2019.

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