Supreme Court Strikes Out Suit Compelling PDP To Zone Presidency To South-East
Supreme Court Strikes Out Suit Compelling PDP To Zone Presidency To South-East
The Supreme Court of Nigeria has struck out a suit seeking to compel the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) to zone its nomination of presidential candidate to the South East Geopolitical Zone of the country.
The court, in a unanimous judgment delivered by Justice Adamu Jauro, struck out the suit on the ground that it lacked jurisdiction to entertain the suit.
Cosmos Ndukwe, a presidential aspirant of PDP and former Deputy Speaker, Abia State House of Assembly, filed the suit against his party, the News Agency of Nigeria reports.
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He had prayed for an order to compel the PDP to uphold its zoning and rotatory policy.
Ndukwe, specifically, sought an order of the court to compel the PDP to zone the nomination of its presidential candidate to the South East Geopolitical Zone.
However, Justice Jauro held that the suit was not justiciable on the ground that the nomination of candidates for election is an internal affair of political parties.
Recall that May, 28th, Atiku Abubakar emerged the PDP’s Presidential standard bearer beating Wike, his closest rival amongst other aspirants.
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