![]() ![]() “Meanwhile, we appreciate our party faithful and supporters for their standing with the party every step of the way and urge them to get their voters cards ready to go out there to vote for the PDP on the February 25 and March 11, 2023. “Now that the court has laid this matter to rest, we must seize this opportunity to advice the opposition parties and candidates in Enugu, who were hoping to secure electoral victory by subterfuge, technicalities, and propaganda to utilise the remaining campaign window to raise their manifestos and proceed to the nooks and crannies of the state to market them to the electorate as the PDP and its candidates have been doing since 2022. “This is victory for democracy and in tandem with the provisions of our laws and decisions by both the Court of Appeal Court and the Supreme Court in matters of this nature. In a terse statement released by its Director of Public Communications and Spokesperson, Nana Ogbodo, the Enugu State PDP Campaign Council said: “We welcome the judgment by the Court upholding the primary elections that produced our candidates in the 2023 general election. They had asked the court to strike out the matter, as it would amount to waste of time of the court to entertain it.Ruling on the matter on Friday, Justice Folashade Giwa-Ogunbanjo said the matter was not status barred, adding that it was misconceived to say that the court had no power to entertain an internal matter of the political parties. They argued that the court lacked jurisdiction to entertain the matter, adding that Idoko lacked the locus standi to challenge the matter that was strictly an internal affairs a party he is not a member. Justina Offiah (SAN) Anthony Ani (SAN) Ogochukwu Onyekwuluje had opposed the suit, insisting that it was filed out of time. After the U.S.-led invasion toppled Taliban rule in late 2001, female students began attending schools. The PDP and its candidates through her Counsels, including Mrs. When the Taliban were in charge from 1996 to 2001, they barred women and girls from school. ![]() His argument was that the party submitted its membership register to INEC and could not wait for the 30 days stipulated by the Electoral Act to hold its primary election. He claimed that the PDP’s primary election held in May last year was in contravention of Section 77 of the Electoral Act and should be voided, adding that the party should be punished in line with extant provisions of the Section 84 of the same Act. Chika Idoko, dragged the party, it’s candidates and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to court. An African Democratic Congress (ADC) senatorial candidate in Enugu North, Mr.
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