2023: Supreme Court sacks PDP from Imo West Senatorial primary election
Supreme Court has ordered the removal of the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the Imo West senatorial poll in the forthcoming February General Election, Mr Jones Onyerere.
This is also as the apex court, in its ruling, Friday, nullified the entire primary election conducted by the party which produced Mr Onyerere.
Justice Emmanuel Agim in a judgment on the appeal filed by Mr Nnamdi Ezeani said that PDP grossly violated section 87 (9) of the Electoral Act by conducting the primary election outside the venue clearly stipulated by law.
The court nullified the primary election on the grounds that it was conducted in Owerri, the state capital instead of Orlu being the Senatorial Headquarters of Imo West, while also upholding that by the judgment, PDP will not participate in the next month Senatorial election having failed to produce its candidate within time allowed by law.
It also held that since the time for conduct of primary election to nominate candidates was already over, it is deemed that the party would not have candidate in the February 25 National Assembly poll.
Agim warned the parties to always conduct their affairs within the ambit of the law adding that section 87 (9) of the Electoral Act is clear on where primary election should be conducted.