PDP Zoning: Supreme Court Strikes Out Suit To Sack Atiku

The Supreme Court on Friday struck out a suit instituted against the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to enforce the party’s zoning and rotation policy ahead of the 2023 presidential election and with it sack Atiku Abubakar as the party’s presidential ticket.

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 it.

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A Presidential aspirant of the 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 rotation policy of the party.

Specifically, the Presidential aspirant sought for order of the court to compel PDP to zone the nomination of its presidential candidate to the South East geo-political zone of the country.

However, the Supreme Court jurist, Justice Jauro held that the suit was not justiciable on the ground that the nomination of candidates and with it zoning within the PDP was an internal affairs of political parties.

The judgment GWG reports that the Supreme Court judgment has ended the move by some within the PDP to use the issue of zoning to remove the party’s presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar.

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