Senator Abdullahi Adamu, the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has argued that those who want Asiwaju Bola Tinubu to be disqualified as the party’s presidential candidate are merely being naughty.
Sen. Adamu said that Tinubu won a well run party primary poll and that the APC’s actions do not violate the law, hence there is no legal justification for calls for Tinubu’s disqualification.
He reportedly made the submission on Sunday during his interview appearance on Arise TV, according to Anaedoonline.ng.
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The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has filed a lawsuit seeking Tinubu’s disqualification for changing his running mate after initially presenting a name as a “placeholder,” against which he spoke.
You may recall that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) sued the Independent National Electoral Commission in an effort to prevent the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate Bola Tinubu and the Labour Party (LP) candidate Peter Obi from choosing Kashim Shettima and Datti Baba-Ahmed as their running mates (INEC).
The PDP requested that the court decide that Tinubu and Obi are not eligible to run for government until they do so with their respective previous running partners, Kabiru Masari and Doyin Okupe.
The PDP is asking for a court injunction that would prevent the Independent National Electoral Commission from changing Tinubu and Obi’s running mates in the original summons with suit number FHC/ABJ/CS/1016/2022.
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In this case, INEC, APC, Tinubu, Masari, Labour Party, Obi, and Okupe are the first through seventh respondents.
Nevertheless, Adamu claimed in his response on Sunday that the complaint is a useless attempt to stop the party because the APC completely complied with the election law’s guidelines for such actions.
In order to avoid speaking too much about a case that is already in court, he said, he wouldn’t want to say too much.
In his words, “The laws of this land are absolutely clear. No matter how mischievous anyone of us wants to be, there is the law. As far as the APC is concerned, we had a convention where a candidate was chosen for an election.
“Within the legal space available to us and to give us room to assess the candidates that will be desirous for our running mate or vice presidential candidate, we had to submit a name that will hold the position for our nomination. The laws of INEC do allow for this. If it doesn’t, we won’t contemplate.
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“It is within the confine and dictates of our electoral laws in this country. It is not something to lose sleep over. We now have a running mate that we have submitted to the INEC. Simple! If you say the PDP has gone to court, let the court decides on the case. It is subjudice anyway.
“For your information, I am a lawyer by my calling. Once a case is in court, it is subjudice. I don’t want to comment on it and I won’t do it beyond what I have just told you now.”
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