{"id":102782,"date":"2023-01-27T19:16:22","date_gmt":"2023-01-27T18:16:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=102782"},"modified":"2023-01-27T19:16:22","modified_gmt":"2023-01-27T18:16:22","slug":"court-dismisses-suit-seeking-tinubus-disqualification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/court-dismisses-suit-seeking-tinubus-disqualification\/","title":{"rendered":"Court dismisses suit seeking Tinubu\u2019s disqualification"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>A Federal High Court in Abuja, on Friday, dismissed a suit filed by a group seeking the disqualification of the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Bola Tinubu, from the 2023 general elections.<\/p>\n<p>Justice Binta Nyako, in the judgment, held that the plaintiff, the Incorporated Trustees of Kingdom Human Rights Foundation International, lacked the locus standi (legal right) to institute the case.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe issue of locus standi of the applicant is a threshold issue because anything conduct without locus will be a nullity and it will be set aside,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Justice Nyako held that the plaintiff, having not been a political party nor a member of APC, had no legal right to file the action.<\/p>\n<p>The judge, who also described the suit as \u201can abuse of court process,\u201d condemned the plaintiff for filing multiple suits with similar reliefs.<\/p>\n<p>She said that Justice Inyang Ekwo of FHC had, on December 15, 2022, delivered a judgment in a similar suit during which it was dismissed.<\/p>\n<p>Nyako observed that the earlier suit before Ekwo and the instant suit had the same reliefs though the names of the parties were slightly different.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cConsequently , the case is hereby dismissed for being an abuse of court process,\u201d she declared.<\/p>\n<p>Pointblanknews.com reports that the group had sued the INEC chairman, the APC, and Tinubu as first to third defendants respectively.<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\nThe group, in an originating motion on notice marked: FHC\/ABJ\/CS\/1960\/22, sought an order of mandamus directing INEC to exercise its statutory power in accordance with Section 84(13) of the Electoral Act 2022 to immediately expunge Tinubu\u2019s name from its final list of presidential candidates contesting the 2023 poll.<\/p>\n<p>The group alluded its ground to the failure of the APC to comply with the mandatory provisions of Section 91(3) of Electoral Act 2022 which stipulates that a political party shall not receive any contribution of cash or kind exceeding N50 million without showing the source of the contribution to INEC, among others.<\/p>\n<p>But Tinubu, through his counsel, Karma Fagbemi, told Justice Nyako that the plaintiff was a meddlesome interloper who was neither a political party nor a candidate in the poll.<\/p>\n<p>He said the plaintiff lacked locus standi to institute the case, which invariably challenged the political party\u2019s decision and its internal affairs.<\/p>\n<p>Tinubu, in a preliminary objection filed by his lead counsel, Lateef Fagbemi, SAN, prayed the court to dismiss the suit for being incompetent.<\/p>\n<p>Giving a 14-ground argument, the lawyer said the subject matter of the suit was a challenge of his client\u2019s eligibility in contesting for the 2023 presidential election on the ground that the APC failed and\/or neglected to identify the source of the N100 million which he paid for his expression of interest and nomination form.<\/p>\n<p>He described the suit as non-justifiable.<\/p><\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Federal High Court in Abuja, on Friday, dismissed a suit filed by a group seeking the disqualification of the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Bola Tinubu, from&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":100244,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exclusive"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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