Federal High Court Dismisses PDP Faction’s Suit Against INEC

A Federal High Court in Abuja has struck out a suit seeking to compel the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to recognise and publish the names of the Kabiru Turaki-led interim National Working Committee of the Peoples Democratic Party.

 Delivering judgment, Justice Salim Ibrahim ruled that the plaintiffs, led by PDP Board of Trustees Chairman Adolphus Wabara, lacked the legal standing to institute the case and struck it out for want of jurisdiction.

The court upheld the preliminary objection filed by INEC, finding that the plaintiffs failed to prove the electoral commission had recognised the purported interim leadership or that they had the authority to sue on behalf of the PDP.

 The Wabara-led Board of Trustees had asked the court to direct INEC to update its records and publish the names of the Turaki-led interim executives on its official website.

They argued that the names were forwarded to INEC in letters dated May 4 and that the commission was constitutionally bound to act on the correspondence.

 This ruling leaves INEC's official records unchanged and marks another legal setback in the ongoing leadership dispute within the PDP.