A Federal High Court in Abuja has struck out a suit seeking to compel the Independent National Electoral Commission to recognise and publish names of the Kabiru Turaki-led interim National Working Committee of the Peoples Democratic Party.
The trial Judge Justice Salim Ibrahim held that the plaintiffs, led by PDP Board of Trustees Chairman, Sen. Adolphus Wabara, lacked the legal standing to institute the suit and consequently struck it out for want of jurisdiction.
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The court in its judgement upheld the preliminary objection filed by INEC, sustaining similar objections raised by parties seeking to be joined in the suit, ruling that the plaintiffs failed to establish that INEC had recognised the purported interim NWC or that they had the authority to sue on behalf of the PDP.
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