An Abuja -based lawyer , Chike Okafor ,
has asked a Federal High Court in the
FCT to disqualify the presidential
candidate of the All Progressives
Congress ( APC) , Muhammadu Buhari ,
over controversy trailing his certificate .
In an originating summon filed on
Monday before the Federal High Court
in Abuja and duly obtained by Daily
Independent , the plaintiff (Okafor ) is
asking the court to disqualify Buhari
from contesting the 2015 presidential
elections.
According to the suit numbered FHC /
ABJ /CS /01 / 2015 , the plaintiff listed
Buhari , APC and the Independent
National Electoral Commission (INEC )
as the three respondents respectively .
The media, in the past weeks, had been
awash with controversy over Buhari ’ s
certificate , with his school eventually
releasing the result after the Nigeria
Army denied custody of same as earlier
claimed by Buhari , who was at a point
the military head of state in Nigeria.
However , the fresh suit is principally
hinged on Section 131 of the
Constitution, which prescribes a
minimum qualification for nomination
to participate in presidential elections
and Section 31 of the Electoral Act that
stipulates all presidential candidates to
depose an affidavit in proof of
compliance with constitutional
requirement to be President of Nigeria.
The plaintiff is specifically contending
that Buhari failed to prove that he has
the minimum educational qualification
to run for President , and that the APC
candidate ’s West African School
Leaving Certificate (WASC ) was false .
He said Buhari not only did he not
attach his purported certificates to his
nomination form as compulsorily
required , but his claim that the
certificates were in the custody of the
military had been denied by the Director
of Army Public Relations , Brigadier
General Olajide Laleye.
The plaintiff formulated one question
for the court’s determination, which is
“ Whether the information given by
Buhari in the prescribed forms and
submitted to INEC for the 2015
presidential election does not contain
falsehood ?
If yes , Okafor equally asked whether
Buhari should not , therefore, be
disqualified from the said election .
has asked a Federal High Court in the
FCT to disqualify the presidential
candidate of the All Progressives
Congress ( APC) , Muhammadu Buhari ,
over controversy trailing his certificate .
In an originating summon filed on
Monday before the Federal High Court
in Abuja and duly obtained by Daily
Independent , the plaintiff (Okafor ) is
asking the court to disqualify Buhari
from contesting the 2015 presidential
elections.
According to the suit numbered FHC /
ABJ /CS /01 / 2015 , the plaintiff listed
Buhari , APC and the Independent
National Electoral Commission (INEC )
as the three respondents respectively .
The media, in the past weeks, had been
awash with controversy over Buhari ’ s
certificate , with his school eventually
releasing the result after the Nigeria
Army denied custody of same as earlier
claimed by Buhari , who was at a point
the military head of state in Nigeria.
However , the fresh suit is principally
hinged on Section 131 of the
Constitution, which prescribes a
minimum qualification for nomination
to participate in presidential elections
and Section 31 of the Electoral Act that
stipulates all presidential candidates to
depose an affidavit in proof of
compliance with constitutional
requirement to be President of Nigeria.
The plaintiff is specifically contending
that Buhari failed to prove that he has
the minimum educational qualification
to run for President , and that the APC
candidate ’s West African School
Leaving Certificate (WASC ) was false .
He said Buhari not only did he not
attach his purported certificates to his
nomination form as compulsorily
required , but his claim that the
certificates were in the custody of the
military had been denied by the Director
of Army Public Relations , Brigadier
General Olajide Laleye.
The plaintiff formulated one question
for the court’s determination, which is
“ Whether the information given by
Buhari in the prescribed forms and
submitted to INEC for the 2015
presidential election does not contain
falsehood ?
If yes , Okafor equally asked whether
Buhari should not , therefore, be
disqualified from the said election .
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