Court Strikes Out PDP Suit Seeking To Sack Kwankwaso, Amaechi, Wamakko

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Friday failed in its bid to unseat governors that decamped to the All Progressives Congress (APC) from their party.

Justice Gabriel Kolawole of a Federal High Court in Abuja struck out the suit filed by the PDP in which it sought to sack the four governors who defected from the party.

The court, in a ruling that lasted about two hours, held that the service of the suit’s originating processes were invalid.

He held that they were wrongly issued and served on the defendants.

The PDP had last December sued the governors, including former Adamawa State governor, Murtala Nyako and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) over their defection to the APC.

The party begged the court to declare the defecting governors’ seats vacant and also asked the court to order INEC to conduct elections for their replacement.

Nyako’s name was removed from the suit shortly after his impeachment.

The remaining four are – Rotimi Amaechi (Rivers), Aliyu Wamakko (Sokoto), Rabiu Kwankwaso (Kano) and Abdulfatai Ahmed (Kwara).

The party had, upon an order of court, served the originating processes at a wrong address, which it claimed was the headquarters of the APC.

The service was faulted by the defendants, forcing the court to set it aside.

Justice Kolawole’s ruling was on the applications filed by Amaechi, Kwankwaso and Ahmed.

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