A Federal High Court in Abuja has struck out a suit seeking to compel the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to recognise and publish the names of the Kabiru Turaki-led interim National Working Committee, NWC, of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.
The ruling marks another legal victory for the faction of the party loyal to the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike.
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 action.
The judge consequently struck out the suit for want of jurisdiction.
Justice Ibrahim upheld the preliminary objection filed by INEC and also sustained similar objections raised by parties seeking to be joined in the case.
The court ruled that the plaintiffs failed to establish that INEC had recognised the purported interim National Working Committee or that they possessed the legal authority to institute the suit on behalf of the PDP.
