Says delegates congress, internal party affair
A Federal High Court, Umuahia, Abia State, has dismissed the suit filed by dissatisfied members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) seeking to set aside the conduct of primaries that produced its candidates for the 2023 elections in the state.
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The court also declared that the conduct of party delegates congress is entirely an internal affair of a political party and not justiciable in law.

Trial judge, Evelyn Anyadike, also declared that no law gives delegates right of action in court to challenge the conduct of party congress and that such suit can only be justiciable if it were brought by an aspirant, who participated in the primary.

Justice Anyadike made the declarations while delivering judgment in the suit filed by seven members of the Abia State PDP, who, among others, urged the court to sack all the party’s candidates for the 2023 election and nullify the primaries from which they emerged on the ground that the three-man delegates election which produced them did not hold.
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She consequently dismissed the suit, declaring that the plaintiffs lacked the locus to file the action.

The plaintiffs, which were listed as Ndudi Nwagbara, Egege Ikedichi, Ochulo Ulonam Junior, Onyedikachi Abaribe, Smile Esinna, Francis Oparocha and Chikwe Chigozie joined the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), PDP and it’s National Chairman, Dr Iyorchia Ayu, as the first, second and third defendants respectively.

The State PDP Vice Chairman/Acting Publicity Secretary, Elder Abraham Amah, in his reaction, described the court verdict as victory for the party, its candidates, democracy and justice for Abians.

He alleged that the plaintiffs had, by that suit, “sought to embarrass the party and disqualify its candidates for election at all levels and enthrone mediocrity for their selfish ends.”
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