The Supreme Court 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.
The Court on Friday in a unanimous judgment delivered by Justice Adamu Jauro struck out the suit on the ground of lack of jurisdiction to entertain the.
A Presidential aspirant of PDP and former Deputy Speaker of Abia State House of Assembly, Hon Cosmos Ndukwe 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 held that the suit was not justiciable on the ground that the nomination of candidates for election is an internal affairs of political parties.
Details later.