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BREAKING: Appeal Court dismisses Nwajiuba’s suit against Tinubu’s candidacy

The Court of Appeal in Abuja has dismissed a suit by a group loyal to a former Minister of State for Education, Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba, seeking the nullification of the nomination of Asiwaju Bola Tinubu as the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC).

A three-man panel of the court, in a judgment on February 17, held that the appeal by the Incorporated trustees of Rights for All International (ITRAI) was incompetent.

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It upheld  objection by the APC that the suit at the appellant filed at the trial court – the Federal High Court, Abuja – was not a pre-election matter because the appellant was not a person covered by Section 285(14) a, b. c of the 1999 Constitution being an NGO.

The appellate court held that the removal of the Nwajiuba who was a party in the case at the lower court meant the judgment of the lower court was not appealed.

The court proceeded to strike out the price of appeal filed by the appellant. On the merit, the court dismissed the entire appeal for lacking in merit.

The court noted that the appeal was an attempt by the appellant – the Incorporated trustees of Rights for All International – to revive itself having earlier been dissolved by the judgment of the trial court.

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