Rivers 2027: Court dismisses suit against NDC, clears way for Lulu-Briggs

A Federal High Court sitting successful Port Harcourt, Rivers State, has struck retired a suit challenging the emergence of Dumo Lulu-Briggs arsenic the governorship campaigner of the Nigeria Democratic Congress, NDC.

An aspirant of the NDC, Kings Unyeawaji, filed the suit against the party, its chairman, the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, and Lulu-Briggs, alleging that helium was excluded from the party’s governorship superior and seeking to nullify Lulu-Briggs’ emergence arsenic the party’s candidate.

Ibim Dokubo, counsel to Lulu-Briggs, challenged some the jurisdiction of the tribunal and the plaintiff’s locus standi.

According to him, the plaintiff lacked the ineligible lasting to institute the suit due to the fact that helium did not enactment successful the governorship primary.

Dokubo besides argued that the statutory 14-day play wrong which complaints arising from enactment primaries tin beryllium filed had elapsed earlier the enactment was commenced.

When the substance came up earlier Justice Muhammed Turaki, counsel to the plaintiff applied to discontinue the suit. The exertion was not opposed by the defendants, pursuing which the tribunal struck retired the case.

Reacting to the development, Lulu-Briggs commended the plaintiff for allowing the substance to extremity peacefully and urged governmental actors to e...