A suit challenging the eligibility of the Peoples Democratic Party’s presidential nominee for 2019, Atiku Abubakar, has been rejected by the Federal High Court in Abuja.
On Monday, Justice Inyang Ekwo ruled on the matter, noting that the plaintiff lacked locus standi (legal standing) to bring the action.
Justice Ekwo labeled the plaintiff as a “busy person and meddlesome invader.”
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In a suit marked FHC/ABJ/CS/177/2019, a group called Incorporated Trustees of Egalitarian Mission for Africa sued Atiku, the People’s Democratic Party, the Independent National Electoral Commission, and the Attorney General of the Federation as the first, second, and fourth respondents, respectively.
The EMA questioned the former Vice President’s ability to run for President on the grounds that he was not a naturalized Nigerian.
The organization urged the court to rule, among other things, that the former vice president is unable to run for president because of the requirements of Sections 25(1) and (2) of the constitution, as well as the circumstances surrounding his birth.
On July 27, 2021, the Adamawa State Government, through its Attorney-General (AG), obtained a court order to be joined in the complaint.
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The court allowed the AG of Adamawa’s request to be added to the lawsuit as the 5th defendant in a motion dated April 26 and submitted June 24.
The state government had told the court that the presidential candidate of the PDP in 2019 was eligible to contest for the highest political office.
It noted that Atiku is from Adamawa and had been elected as a governor of the state in 1999 and served as the vice president of the country between 1999 to 2007.
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It stated that the suit threatened the right of not just the ex-vice president to contest the office of the president “but that of the citizens of Nigeria, of Adamawa origin covering 12 out of the 21 Local Government Areas in the state.”
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