A High Court presided over by Justice Ishaku Kunda has dismissed a suit filed before him by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) challenging the decision of the Plateau Independent Electoral Commission (PLASIEC) to exclude it from participating in the scheduled October 9, 2021 local government council polls.
While delivering judgement, Justice Kunda held that PLASIEC did not err to have denied PDP nomination and expression of interest forms for the said election. He noted that the PDP instead of abiding by the judgement of SP Gang of November 20, 2020 to conduct state Congress, the party in flagrant disregard for a subsisting judgement, went ahead to evoke sections of its constitution to dissolved the state EXCO and constituted a caretaker committee which conducted its primaries that produced the candidates which PLASIEC refused to issue forms.
In such circumstances, the judge further held that all processes, steps and actions taken by the caretaker committee including the conduct of the said primary elections was null and void. In his own words, Justice Kunda noted that “The entire claims in the submission of the claimant is hereby, dismissed”.
The sum N2.5million in damages was awarded against the PDP.
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