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, NWC, of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.
Justice Salim Ibrahim, in a ruling delivered on Friday, held that the plaintiffs, led by the Chairman of the PDP Board of Trustees, Senator Adolphus Wabara, lacked the legal standing to institute the suit.
The judge ruled that the plaintiffs failed to establish the legal basis to bring the action, adding that the court lacked jurisdiction to entertain the matter.
Consequently, the suit was struck out.
The court upheld the preliminary objection filed by INEC and also sustained similar objections raised by parties seeking to be joined in the case.
Justice Ibrahim held that the plaintiffs failed to prove that INEC had recognised the purported interim NWC headed by Kabiru Turaki or that they had the authority to institute the suit on behalf of the PDP.
The ruling effectively ends the legal bid seeking to compel the electoral commission to recognise and publish the names of the Turaki-led interim leadership of the opposition party.
