An FCT High Court, Maitama, on Thursday, struck out the case of Senator Ali Modu Sheriff and 17 other members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) over the Port Harcourt convention for incompetence
Sherrif and 17 others had challenged the PDP and seven others over the May 21 National Convention of the party in Port Harcourt.
The convention had dissolved the National Executive Council, National Working Committee and set up a seven-man caretaker committee.
The judge, Justice Husseini Baba-Yusuf held that since some of the plaintiffs’ consent were not sought by Sheriff before joining them in the suit, the suit was incompetent.
He said that the submission before the court showed that some of the plaintiffs had no interest in the matter and never gave their consent.
“Therefore the suit is liable to be struck out,” he held.
Baba-Yusuf, had at the last sitting, struck out Olisa Metuh’’s name in the suit, following the application of his counsel, Henry Leonard.
Mr Alex Izinyon (SAN), counsel to Sherrif, had urged the court to strike out the names of the plaintiffs since they claimed they had been improperly included in the suit.
Also, Mr Emmanuel Ukala (SAN), counsel to the 1st , 3rd , 4th , 5th , and 6th plaintiffs and Mr Yunus Usman (SAN), counsel to the 2nd , 7th and 8th applicants, asked the court to strike out the suit.
