BREAKING: Placeholder: Tinubu, Obi Floor Atiku In Court

Your objection on placeholder unknown to law, Court tells the PDP Presidential candidate

 

Justice Donatus Okorowo, of the Federal High Court, Abuja, on Monday gave the candidates of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Bola Ahmed Tinubu and the Labour Party (LP) counterpart, Peter Obi the all-clear signal to contest next year’s presidential election.

The court, threw out the objection of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), who challenged the candidates and their political parties for appointing placeholders to hold place before the nomination of their vice presidential candidates, respectively.

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Okorowo, in his verdict, held that the suit was an abuse of court process because issues raised by the plaintiff were unknown to law, adding that the PDP, did not disclose any reasonable cause of action against the respondents, a development that robbed the court of jurisdiction to hear the case.

“When a court finds out that a suit is an abuse of court process, the court has the right to dismiss it,” he said in his pronouncement on the matter canvassed by the PDP lawyer, Gordy Uche (SAN).

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In the suit marked: FHC/ABJ/CS/1016/2022, the PDP challenged the propriety of the nomination of placeholders by the presidential candidates of the APC and LP, claiming among others, that such procedure was unlawful.

The PDP, which joined in the matter were Kabiru Masari (placeholder for APC), Doyin Ojuoe (placeholder for LP) and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) as parties, contended that the term ‘placeholder’ was unknown to law in the country.

It added that the Electoral Act made no provisions whatsoever for placeholder or temporary running mates.

It further argued that acts of the 2nd (APC), 3rd (Tinubu), 5th (Labour Party ) and 6th (Obi) defendants in nominating and forwarding the names of the 4th (Masari) and 7th (Okupe) defendants as running mates for the 2023 Presidential elections was valid and subsisting and could not be overridden by the subsequent nomination of Shettima and Baba-Ahmed.

The party had, among others, prayed the court to declare  that by the combined interpretation of Section 142(1) of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999 (as amended), Sections 29(1), 31, 33 of the Electoral Act 2022, the 1st defendant’s (INEC’s) election timetable, the 3rd (Tinubu) and 6th (Obi) cannot validly contest  the 2023 Presidential election without the 4th (Masari) and 7th (Obi) respondents as their respective running mates.

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