A Federal High Court in Abuja on Friday dismissed a suit by the Peoples Democratic Party seeking the disqualification of Senator Bola Tinubu, the presidential candidate of All Progressives Congress, and his running mate, Kassim Shettima, for the 2023 general elections.
In the suit filed on July 28, 2022, the party contested Tinubu’s validity to contest the 2023 presidential election as the APC candidate on the ground that Shettima’s nomination as his running mate was in breach of the provisions of Sections 29, 33, 35 and 84 of the Electoral Act, 2022 .
Justice Inyang Ekwo, who delivered judgment in the suit, dismissed it on the ground that the PDP lacked locus standi to institute the suit. The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the PDP, in its originating summons marked: FHC/ABJ/CS/1734/2022, had sued the Independent National Electoral Commission, the APC, Tinubu and Shettima as 1st to 4th defendants respectively.
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.Ruling, Justice Ekwo said the court found the action incompetent for lack of locus standi and that the matter bordered on the internal affairs of the APC in which the PDP legal right to file the case.
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