Today, July 4, 2024, the Federal High Court in Abuja presided over.

 

 by: Hon, Justice Ekwo 

entered a judgment in Suit No. FHC/ABJ/CS/165 of

2024 (HON. KELVIN MOHAMMED & 2 ORS VS INEC & 3 ORS), which was filed
by some disgruntled persons who claimed that they were authentic
delegates wrongly excluded from participating in the choice of the
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) flagbearer in the forthcoming
gubernatorial elections in Edo State.

In a strange development and contrary to a long line of Appellate
Courts' decision on the subject, the Hon. Justice held that the issue
of ward congresses and choice of the delegates, is a justiciable
matter which the court is entitled to look into. It must be noted that
the Edo State PDP and the specific court involved in this matter have
a history on exactly this same point in which the Appellate Court had
cause to set aside similar decisions of that same Court and to restate
the law that ward congresses and the choice of delegates are purely
internal affairs of political parties outside the jurisdiction of any
court.

We are confident that this new decision will not survive the test of
appeal and all necessary steps in that regard are already being
actively pursued. Furthermore, it must be noted that the claim in
question and the judgment which arose therefrom did not in any shape
or form invalidate or even challenge the outcome of the PARTY
PRIMARIES which produced the candidate of the PDP for the forthcoming
elections.

 The net result therefore is that contrary to the stories making the
rounds, spread by mischief makers, the PDP primaries held on February
22, 2024, were not set aside and neither was any order given affecting
the outcome of same. Members and supporters of the PDP as well as the
good people of Edo State are enjoined to remain calm and ignore the
antics of mischief makers

as the falsity of their assertion will be made clear in the fullness
of time and upon release of the actual judgment for public
consumption. Signed Edo PDP Campaign Organisation