BEVERLY HILLS, February 04, (THEWILL) – The road to the February 14 presidential election appears bumpy for the All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential Candidate, General Muhammadu Buhari, as yet another suit seeking to stop him from the election has been filed at a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja.
The suit appears to be part of the desperate plot by elements in the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to get the All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential Candidate, General Muhammadu Buhari, out of the presidential contest due to his soaring popularity ahead of the PDP’s President Goodluck Jonathan.
The suit filed on Wednesday by Dr Ayakeme Whiskey, which is seeking an order declaring Buhari ineligible to contest the February 14 election, is the third of its kind since preparations for the election began.
An earlier suit bordering on direct criminal complaint against Buhari is already pending before an Abuja Magistrate’s Court in Abuja praying for an order to direct that the APC Presidential candidate “be brought to book” for allegedly claiming on oath that he had a certificate he did not obtain.
The presiding judge , Justice Adeniyi Ademola of the Federal High Court in Abuja has already fixed February 9 for hearing in the two previous suits, as he had on Monday and Tuesday ordered that the processes be served on Buhari through publication in newspapers.
Joined as defendants in the suit marked FHC/ABJ/CS68/2015 are INEC and Buhari .
In the fresh suit, the plaintiff, Whiskey, is anchoring his case on the same grounds of alleged failure by Buhari to accompany his Form CF001 submitted to INEC with his certificates of academic qualifications.
Whiskey contended that failure of Buhari to do so had rendered him ineligible to participate in the election as he failed to comply with provisions of sections 131 and 318 of the 1999 Constitution and section 31(3) of the Electoral Act, 2010.
In an affidavit he personally deposed today, Whiskey averred : “That the documents submitted 2nd defendant did not show evidence of school certificate, whether first or secondary.
“That by not providing and attaching his certificates as required, the 2nd defendant has left the question of his qualification for the election to conjecture.
“There is no way to know whether or not the 2nd defendant has the requisite educational qualification necessary to contest for the position of President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.”
One of the two earlier suits numberedFHC/ABJ/CS/14/2015 was filed by Max Ozoaka. The other with number FHC/ABJ/CS/01/2015 was filed by Chukwunweike Okafor.
However, the fresh suit by Whiskey has not been assigned to a judge and no date has been fixed for the hearing.
