The Supreme Court has dismissed an appeal instituted by the All Progressives Congress (APC) against the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Ahiazu Mbaise Ezinihitte Federal Constituency of Imo State.
The Apex Court on Friday threw out the appeal on the ground that APC has no legal right to dabble in the candidate selection process of the PDP.
In a judgment delivered by Justice Emmanuel Akomaye Agim, the Supreme Court held that the APC acted like a busybody and meddlesome interloper in the ways and manners it got involved in the PDP matters.
A chieftain of the APC in Imo State, Nnamdi Igbokwe had instituted the suit against the nomination of Emeka Martins Chinedu as PDP’S candidate for Ahiazu Mbaise Ezinihitte Federal Constituency.
He had prayed for an order of the court against the Independent National Electoral Commission INEC not to accept or list Chinedu as a lawfully nominated candidate.
The grouse of the APC was that PDP’S candidate was returned unopposed in a primary election for the House of Representatives ticket for the February 25, 2023, National Assembly election.
The APC claimed that the unopposed system that produced Emeka Martins Chinedu during PDP’S primary election was not known to law and should not be accepted by the electoral body.
APC had lost the suit at the Federal High Court as well as the Court of Appeal before it proceeded to Supreme Court to vent its anger on how PDP produced the candidate.
But the Supreme Court in its judgment held that the appellants, (APC and Igbokwe) have no business in challenging the candidate selection process of the PDP.
Justice Agim while dismissing the appeal held that the case of APC was without merit and asked parties to bear their respective cost of litigation.
