Justice Mudashiru Oniyangi of an Abuja High Court on Thursday stopped the National Democratic Party from participating in the April general election.
The stoppage was sequel to the party’s nomination of its candidates under the first election timetable instead of the second timetable published by the Independent National Electoral Commission on November 23.
“The Judge in refusing call by NDP to nullify the second time table of the INEC published on November 23 and to allow the first timetable published on September 7, noted that the initial time, table was only valid before the second timetable was released via publication.
He therefore found that the validity of the earlier time table for the conduct of the April polls as published by INEC (the defendant) lasted before the reversion of the commission to the second time table.
Justice Oniyangi stated that the first time table ceases to exist upon the publication of the second time table.
The Judge therefore declined to order INEC to issue Form CFOO1 and CFOO2 to NDP which if issued, would enable the party to participate in the elections.
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INEC timetable: Court stops NDP from April polls