Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has struck out a suit seeking to compel the Independent National Electoral Commission to recognise and publish the names of the Kabiru Turaki-led Interim National Working Committee of the Peoples Democratic Party.
Delivering judgement 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 and consequently struck it out for want of jurisdiction.
The court upheld the preliminary objection filed by INEC and sustained 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 National Working Committee or that they had the authority to sue on behalf of the PDP.
