The Federal High Court in Abuja on Monday struck out a suit filed by Ned Nwoko, seeking to void the emergence of former Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta as the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) for the Delta North Senatorial District.
Justice Mohammed Umar, in a ruling, upheld the arguments of the defendants’ lawyers, including Kehinde Ogunwumiju, SAN, that the suit was fundamentally defective and incompetent from its inception.
Mr Umar agreed with the defence argument that the originating summons could not be amended as sought by Mr Nwoko.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that Mr Nwoko commenced the suit, marked FHC/ABJ/CS/1062/2026, in his name but through a person described in the originating processes as his attorney, Mike Nwoko.
At a point, Mr Nwoko applied to amend the originating processes to reflect that the pre-election suit was personally commenced by him rather than through his purported attorney.
