A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has dismissed a suit challenging the candidacy of Bola Ahmed Tinubu of the All Progressive Congress (APC) and Atiku Abubakar of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in the forthcoming general elections.
Ngozika Ihuoma, a rights advocate in the suit marked FHC/ABJ/CS/854/2022 dragged both candidates to court for allegedly violating extant electoral laws. The candidates’ parties, Office of the Attorney-General of the Federation and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) were sued alongside the candidates.
Punch reported that Ihuoma sought amongst other reliefs, that INEC bar Tinubu and Atiku from contesting the 2023 presidential elections.
In dismissing the case for being speculative, Justice Fafina Muritala described the plaintiff as a “meddlesome interloper having no locus standi to institute the suit.”
APC’s counsel, Julius Ishola Esq. From Babatunde Ogala, had urged the court to not only dismiss the case but to do so with heavy cost to the plaintiff for wasting judicial time.
This was fourth case to be dismissed by the court in recent times.
Nnamdi Maduakor is a Writer, Investor and Entrepreneur
