The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) and its presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, have asked a federal high court in Abuja to dismiss a suit challenging the outcome of the party’s presidential primary.
Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike had in May lost the party’s presidential ticket after the governor of Sokoto State Aminu Tambuwal stepped down and asked his supporters to vote for Atiku, who eventually secured 371 votes to become PDP’s standard-bearer.
Following the presidential primary, a lawsuit was instituted by some supporters of the Rivers governor, in which a PDP chieftain Newgent Ekamon asked the court to order INEC to remove Atiku from “its list of candidates in the 2023 presidential election.
In a joint preliminary objection to the plaintiffs’ suit, PDP, Atiku and Tambuwal have asked the court to dismiss the suit, describing it as unknown to law and/or not cognizable under a pre-election matter”.
