The Labour Party (LP) on Tuesday said the grounds upon which tribunals reversed the election of some of its lawmakers were in contravention of established jurisprudence.
LP National Chairman, Julius Abure, in a statement made available to newsmen noted that the Supreme Court, and even last week’s judgement of the Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC), had already decided such a matter.
According to Abure, the superior courts had ruled that “Where the leadership of a party regards a person as a member of the party eligible to contest the primaries, no member of the party can complain against such a decision.
“Such an issue is within the domestic and internal affairs of the party over which the courts have no jurisdiction as such is not justiciable.”
He regretted that the reverse has been the case in the pronouncements coming from the various tribunals.
Abure described as incomprehensible and ludicrous the conflicting decisions from different tribunals, noting that they give diverse judgements on the same matter.
Credit: The Nigeria Lawyer