A Federal High Court in Abuja, on Friday, dismissed a suit by the Peoples Democratic Party seeking the disqualification of the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Bola Tinubu and his running mate, Kassim Shettima, for the 2023 elections.
But the defendants, argued that the PDP lacked the locus standi to file the suit, which was challenging the political party’s decision and its nomination of candidates for the polls. They also contended that the party’s decision was an internal one
He agreed with the defendants that the suit was an abuse of court process and that the PDP had no locus standi to file the matter. And where there is no locus, according to the Justice, the court has no jurisdiction. “It is express in the provision of Section 29 of the Electoral Act, 2022 that the right of action on the matter for which the applicant/respondent has filed this action is given to ‘any aspirant who participated in the primaries of his political party’,” he said.
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