{"id":123,"date":"2024-07-01T10:53:46","date_gmt":"2024-07-01T10:53:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tdi_200_bc3"},"modified":"2024-07-05T04:01:49","modified_gmt":"2024-07-05T04:01:49","slug":"the-biggest-hollywood-celebrities-visit-the-ranches-of-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/Japastreet.com\/?p=123","title":{"rendered":"Court faults Edo PDP for excluding 381 delegates from primary \u2014 but fails to void poll (corrected)"},"content":{"rendered":"

A federal high court in Abuja has ruled that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) was wrong to have excluded 381 delegates from its primary election held on February 22.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

In the ruling delivered on Thursday, Inyang Ekwo, presiding judge, held that the PDP failed to comply with the provisions of the Electoral Act 2022 and the party\u2019s constitution.<\/p>\n

The judge further held that even though the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) filed a memorandum of appearance in the suit, it was unfortunate that the commission did not file any process in the case.<\/p>\n

Although the court granted the reliefs sought by the plaintiffs, no consequential order was expressly made nullifying the primary election.<\/p>\n

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WHAT THE JUDGE SAID<\/b><\/p>\n

\u201cThere is no doubt that the second defendant (the PDP) neither complied with the relevant provision of its constitution nor the electoral guidelines for primary elections of 22nd February 2024,\u201d Ekwo said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is the law that political parties must obey their constitution, guidelines, and regulations.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe failure to comply with the electoral guidelines is not different from the effect of non-compliance with the constitution of the political party or non-compliance with the provisions of the Electoral Act 2022.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe decision of the second defendant not to include the plaintiffs in the governorship primaries for which they were elected at the ward congress, was arbitrarily done.<\/p>\n

\u201cWard congresses are to be held in accordance with the law, the party\u2019s<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A federal high court in Abuja has ruled that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) was wrong to have excluded 381 delegates from its primary election held on February 22.\u00a0 In the ruling delivered on Thursday, Inyang Ekwo, presiding judge, held that the PDP failed to comply with the provisions of the Electoral Act 2022 and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":236,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-123","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-politics"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/Japastreet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/Japastreet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/Japastreet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/Japastreet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/Japastreet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=123"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/Japastreet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":237,"href":"https:\/\/Japastreet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123\/revisions\/237"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/Japastreet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/Japastreet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/Japastreet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/Japastreet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}