 A federal High Court sitting in Potacot has struck out suit by the People's Democratic Party challenging the eligibility of Accord, its governorship candidate, and running mate to contest the 2023 general elections in River State for lack of jurisdiction. Preciting George Justice Stephen Day-Law Parm in a separate suit also struck out PDP suit against all the National Assembly candidates of Accord for lack of jurisdiction. Justice Day-Law Parm in his judgement did not bother to go into the merit of the matter but based his judgement on the recent decision of the Appeal Court in Lagos and River State which reviewed that no court has jurisdiction to hear a case filed by another political party on a bordering on internal party affairs. Speaking to newsmen outside the courtroom, Benjamin Omeji and Joy Nune who were presented Accord, the governorship candidate, its running mate and National Assembly candidate said the judgement is victory to Accord and democracy. The court has upheld the PO preliminary objection filed by us. We are saying that the court has no jurisdiction to entertain this matter. We raised several grounds upon that. The matter was filed out of time. It is an inter-party affair which no party, nobody has the right to inter meddle with. And the court has based its judgement on the division of Court of Appeal Lagos division which recently came out and was submitted to the judge in this matter that nobody has the right to question the internal activities of Accord A. And it was based on that that the court gave his decision. We have seen that Duma Lulu Bricks and other candidates of the Accord party are very qualified to contest this election and they are now ready to go out fully to campaign. So it's obvious that the Accord party was ready for the elections and we thank the judge for making justice real. On his part, the Accord governorship candidate Duma Lulu Bricks expressed happiness that justice was not denied at last, saying that Accord has put a stop to every interference of PDP into another political party. Justice was not denied. The Court of Appeal in Lagos and also the Court of Appeal here in Podaco that ruled that this meddlesomeness of the PDP must stop. This is an internal affairs of another political party. Nobody in that party is questioning the primaries or how the candidates emerged. So today, at least justice is up and it is in this same manner that next year, March, rivers will deliver judgments in my favor.