PDP had dragged the Independent National Electoral Commission; All Progressives Congress, and Omo-Agege before the court, praying for an order to stop the bid by the Deputy Senate President and his party from standing for the election on allegations of breach of Electoral Act 2022.
The main complain of the PDP was that the APC and Omo-Agege, violated sections two hundred and eighty five, sub section fourteen of the 1999 Constitution and section thirty, thirty two and seventy three of the Electoral Act 2022, by submitting the nomination form of Omo-Agege manually as against uploading through the online Nomination Portal of INEC.
PDP claimed that since submission of nomination form through INEC Nomination Portal is mandatorily prescribed by law, INEC ought not to have published Omo-Agege’s name as it did in October 4 last year.
However, Justice Inyang Ekwo observed that the PDP as the plaintiff in the suit, has not appeared in court through legal representation for three consecutive times to present its case and also did not give any information.
Justice Ekwo held that by the persistent non-appearance in court, it is deemed that the suit has been abandoned by the plaintiff and subsequently dismissed the suit for lack of diligent prosecution.
