Nwajiuba Heads to Court, Asks to Declare Him APC Candidate

Nwajiuba in association with the Incorporated Trustees of Rights for All International (RAI), has filed the case via an originating summons.

The former minister in the suit has raised a number of questions regarding the ticket currently being held by Tinubu.

He is specifically seeking to know validity of the ticket based on the alleged fraud in form of massive vote-buying of delegates to the APC primaries by the former Governor of Lagos State and National Leader of the party, and why it would not be retrieved from him, by cancelling the votes that accrued to him during the event.

Nwajiuba, who also said the same should apply to the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, accusing Tinubu and Atiku of bribing delegates with dollars, presented 26 issues for determination by the court.

Specifically asking the court to determine whether the composition of the delegates contravened Article 11(A) 12(1) and 13(1) of the constitution of the APC, he also urged it to determine if the composition of the delegates at the PDP primary did not contravene Section 33(1) and (5) (c) of the constitution of the party.

He prayed the court to determine whether having regard to the clear unambiguous and express provisions and tenor of Sections 6(6) (A) (B) and (C) read alongside Section 15(5) of the 1999 Constitution, it had the inherent judicial powers to nullify, cancel, and declare as illegal the presidential primaries of the APC and the PDP.

Indeed, the former Minister, asked the court to determine that all the votes cast in favor of Tinubu and Atiku at the special national conventions of the APC and PDP were illegal, null, void, and of no effect whatsoever on the grounds of corruption and selling of delegates’ votes and voter inducement.

Consequently, he prayed the court to decide that having regard to the express provisions of paragraphs 1 and 8 of the 5th schedule of the 1999 Constitution, the alleged corrupt conducts of Tinubu and Atiku in buying votes and inducing delegates with dollars and naira to secure their votes at the special national convention, disqualify them from further seeking, contesting, and holding the office of the President.
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