Nigeria: Court bars PDP from holding national convention — Africa Links 24

The Federal High Court in Abuja, on Friday, restrained the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, from recognising the outcome of the forthcoming peoples Democratic Party, PDP’s national convention.

Justice James Omotosho, in a judgment, held that the PDP failed to comply with relevant conditions and laws for the conduct of the convention.

Justice Omotosho, who challenged the legality of the convention, held that evidence from the electoral umpire and some of the…