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Lawyers Ask Court To Disqualify Atiku, Tinubu, Obi From 2023 Presidential Polls

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June 30, 2022
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Lawyers Ask Court To Disqualify Atiku, Tinubu, Obi From 2023 Presidential Polls
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At least three lawyers in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, have dragged the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) before a Federal High Court, seeking an order against the electoral body to derecognise the nomination of Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar and Peter Obi, as presidential candidates in the 2023 general elections.

This platform reports that Tinubu is the Presidential Candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), former Vice-President Atiku is the presidential candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), while former Anambra State governor, Peter Obi, is the Presidential Candidate of the Labour Party (LP).

According to the lawyers, Tinubu, Atiku and Obi, were unlawfully nominated by their respective political parties.

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The Plaintiffs in the suit marked: FHC/ABJ/CS/1004/2022 are Ataguba Aboje, Oghenovo Otemu and Ahmed Yusuf.

Apart from INEC, other defendants in the suit instituted on June 29, are; the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF), the APC, PDP and the LP as 1st to 5th respectively.

In the suit filed on their behalf by Ataguba Aboje, the plaintiffs are contending that APC, PDP and LP contravened provisions of the 1999 Constitution and the Electoral Act, 2022, in the conduct of the primary elections that produced their presidential candidates.

Amongst others, they are contending that the three parties flouted the law by their failure to nominate their Vice Presidential candidates before the conduct of their primary elections as required by law.

They want the court to determine whether, by the provisions of Sections 131, 141 and 142 of the 1999 Constitution, the office of the Vice President of Nigeria is an elective office subject to the same qualification as the office of the President of Nigeria.

The plaintiffs also asked the court to determine whether by the provisions of Sections 131, 141 and 142 of the Constitution and Sections 29, 32, 84 and 152 of the Electoral Act, 2022, a candidate for an election to the office of the Vice President in Nigeria must be sponsored by a political party and whether in view of the same provisions a candidate for an election to the office of the President can be deemed to be validly nominated and declared winner of a primary election without first nominating associate from the same political party for the office of Vice President and both of them participating in the primary.

They further want the court to determine whether, given the same provisions of the laws, INEC can accept from a political party, the nomination of a candidate for election to the office of the President, who participated alone in the primary election without nominating another candidate as an associate from the same political party to occupy the office of the Vice President.

Upon determination of the issues, the lawyers want the court to make a declaration that the office of the Vice President is an elective office, subject to the same qualification as the office of the President and another declaration that a candidate for an election to the office of the Vice President must be sponsored by a political party in accordance with Section 84 of the Electoral Act, 2022.

Similarly, the lawyers seek a declaration that APC, PDP and LP candidates for the office of the Vice President must participate together with their respective candidates for the election to the office of the President in their primary elections before they can be deemed validly elected.

Plaintiffs further sought another declaration that their Presidential candidates, who did not participate together with their respective associates for the office of Vice President in their primary elections are invalidly nominated.

They, therefore, applied for an order restraining INEC from recognising Presidential candidates of APC, PDP and LP for failing to comply with the mandatory provisions of Sections 131 and 142 of the 1999 Constitution, as well as Sections 29, 32, 84 and 152 of the Electoral Act, 2022.

In their 27- paragraph affidavit in support of the originating summons and deposed to by Ataguba Aboje, plaintiffs claimed that as lawyers, they have a duty to ensure that no person or group shall govern or take control of the Government of Nigeria except in accordance with the democratic provisions of the 1999 Constitution.

They argued that the 1999 Constitution makes it mandatory for a Presidential candidate to be sponsored by a political party, and that such candidates shall not be deemed validly nominated unless the candidate nominates another person from the same political party as his running mate.

The lawyers argued that the APC, PDP and LP conducted their Presidential primaries and declared Tinubu, Atiku and Obi winners “without a concurrent and contemporaneous declaration of candidates for the office of the Vice President.”

That the submission of the names of Alhaji Kabir Masari, Senator Ifeanyi Okowa and Dr Doyin Okupe, as running mates to the APC, PDP and LP Presidential Candidates respectively, contravenes the provisions of the 1999 Constitution.

Meanwhile, no date has been fixed for the hearing of the suit.

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