A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has struck out a suit seeking to compel the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to recognise and publish the Kabiru Turaki-led interim National Working Committee (NWC) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
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Delivering judgment on Friday, Justice Salim Ibrahim held that the plaintiffs, led by the Chairman of the PDP Board of Trustees, Senator Adolphus Wabara, lacked the legal standing to institute the suit. The court consequently struck out the case for want of jurisdiction.
Justice Ibrahim upheld the preliminary objection filed by INEC and sustained similar objections raised by parties seeking to be joined in the matter. The court ruled that the plaintiffs failed to establish that INEC had recognised the purported interim NWC or that they possessed the legal authority to institute the action on behalf of the PDP.
The ruling marks a significant development in the ongoing leadership dispute within the opposition party.
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