Court dismisses PDP bid to sack Amaechi, Kwankwaso, others

The Peoples Democratic Party has lost in its bid to unseat governors that decamped to the All Progressives Congress.

A Federal High Court in Abuja struck out on Friday the suit filed by the PDP, with which it sought to sack the four governors who defected from the party.
Justice Gabriel Kolawole, in a ruling that lasted about two hours held that the suit’s originating processes were invalid, on the ground that they were wrongly issued and served on the defendants.
The PDP had last December sued the governors, including a former Adamawa State governor, Murtala Nyako and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), asking the court to declare the defecting governors’ seats vacant, and for 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 on 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.