Supreme Strikes out suit seeking to compel PDP to Zone Presidency to South East
By Ben Ngwakwe, Gombe
The Supreme Court sitting in Abuja, has struck out a suit instituted against the People’s Democratic Party PDP, to enforce the zoning and rotatory policy in the 2023 Presidential election to the South East zone
In a Unanimous Judgement delivered by Justice Adamu Jauro, a Gombe born jurist, the court struck out the suit on the ground of lack of jurisdiction to entertain it.
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A Presidential aspirant of PDP and former Deputy Speaker of Abia State House of Assembly, Hon Cosmos Ndukwe had instituted the suit against his party praying for an order to compel it to uphold the zoning and rotatory policy of the party.
Specifically, the Presidential aspirant sought for order of the court to compel PDP to zone the nomination of it’s presidential candidate to the South East geo-political zone of the country.
However, Justice Jauro dismissed the suit on the ground that the nomination of candidates for election was an internal affair of political parties.
