The Federal High Court, Abuja has struck out the suit filed by the Kwara state PDP seeking to have Governor Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq disqualified and stopped from participating in the upcoming 2023 Governorship Election.
Justice Inyang Ekwo in his ruling dismissed the suit for being incompetent and an abuse of Court process.
He ruled that the PDP lacked the locus standi to institute the legal action in question cognizant that it wasn’t a participant in the governorship primary election that produced Governor Abdulrazaq as Kwara state APC gubernatorial candidate.
Team@orientactualmags.com learned the judge added that Section 29(5) of the Electoral Act 2022 stated that only an aspirant who had participated in the primary election organized by a political party can seek to disqualify another for giving false information like the PDP had alleged.
Justice Ekwo also submitted that ‘there is no provision in the Electoral Act or the Constitution that gives a political party the legal right to challenge the candidacy of an aspirant’.
The judge further noted that the Governorship primary election being an internal affair of the APC, completely hindered the PDP from seeking to dictate how the party conducts its affairs.
The suit which was filed on August 4, 2022 had urged the court to make an order directing the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to delete Abdulrazaq’s name from the list of gubernatorial candidates for the 2023 Kwara state governorship election.
The party had also asked the court to declare that Governor Abdulrazaq had presented a forged WAEC certificate to the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) -Team@orientactualmags.com
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