{"id":103974,"date":"2023-03-30T15:38:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-30T14:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=103974"},"modified":"2023-03-30T15:38:00","modified_gmt":"2023-03-30T14:38:00","slug":"breaking-supreme-court-rules-on-ex-ministers-suit-on-tinubu-atikus-candidacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/breaking-supreme-court-rules-on-ex-ministers-suit-on-tinubu-atikus-candidacy\/","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: Supreme Court Rules On Ex-minister\u2019s Suit On Tinubu, Atiku\u2019s Candidacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">The Supreme Court has dismissed an appeal filed by former Minister of State for Education, Prof. Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba, seeking to void the participation of Asiwaju Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the February 25 presidential election.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\nIn a judgement on Thursday, a five-member of the apex court held that the appeal by Nwajiuba and a group, the Rights for All International (RAI), was statute barred and had become academic.<\/p>\n<p>Justice John Okoro, who presided over the panel, dismissed the appeal after appellants\u2019 lawyer applied to withdraw it.<\/p>\n<p>The appellants had, among others, urged the Supreme Court to void the primaries from which Tinubu and Abubakar emerged as their parties\u2019 candidates on grounds of alleged corruption.<\/p>\n<p>Nwajiuba and RAI had lost at both the Federal High Court and Court of Appeal in Abuja before approaching the Supreme Court, where they also lost on Thursday.<\/p>\n<div class=\"yj6qo\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"adL\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/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>The Supreme Court has dismissed an appeal filed by former Minister of State for Education, Prof. Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba, seeking to void the participation of Asiwaju Bola Tinubu of the All&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":103975,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103974","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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