BREAKING: Court dismisses PDP suit against Tinubu, Obi over placeholders’ deputies

📆 9/19/2022 2:53 PM
📰 TheNationNews

⏱ Reading Time:
21 sec. here
2 min. at publisher
📊 Quality Score:
News: 12%
Publisher: 69%

Law Law Headlines News

Law Law Latest News,Law Law Headlines

A Federal High Court, Abuja, on Monday, dismissed a suit filed by the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) against Bola Tinubu and Peter Obi, the presidential candidates of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and Labour Party (LP) respectively. Justice Donatus Okorowo, in a judgment, held that the suit was unknown to law and hence, described it as “an abuse of court process.” Okorowo, who said the court lacked jurisdiction to entertain the matter, also held that the suit did not disclose any reasonable cause of action against the respondents. “When a court finds out that a suit is an abuse of court process, the court has the right to dismiss it,” he said. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the PDP had, in a suit marked: FHC/ABJ/CS/1016/2022 sued the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), APC, Tinubu, Kabiru Masari, LP, Obi and Doyin Okupe respectively as 1st to 8th respondents respectively The PDP had asked the court to compel INEC to prevent Tinubu and Obi from…

A Federal High Court, Abuja, on Monday, dismissed a suit filed by the People’s Democratic Party against Bola Tinubu and Peter Obi, the presidential candidates of the All Progressives Congress and Labour Party respectively.

“When a court finds out that a suit is an abuse of court process, the court has the right to dismiss it,” he said. The PDP is also asking the court to declare that Tinubu and Obi be disqualified unless they contest alongside their previous running mates – Masari and Okupe respectively. After weeks of consultations, Tinubu and Obi nominated Shettima and Baba-Ahmed respectively while Masari and Okupe resigned.

Write Comment

So this case was still on ground 😂😂😂

We have summarized this news so that you can read it quickly. If you are interested in the news, you can read the full text here. Read more:

Law Law Latest News, Law Law Headlines

Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.

BREAKING: Court takes decision on ‘disqualifying’ Obi, Tinubu from 2023 electionAs the 2023 election gathers steam, the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has declined to disqualify the presidential candidates of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Labour Party, Bola Tinubu and Peter Obi respectively. PoliticsNGR Drama PoliticsNGR PDP failing at every project! PoliticsNGR
Source: NigeriaNewsdesk - 🏆 10. / 63 Read more »

BREAKING: Court dismisses PDP's suit seeking Tinubu, Peter Obi's disqualification for substituting running matesJustice Donatus Okorowo of the Federal High Court in Abuja on Monday dismissed a suit instituted by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) seeking to Wetin Peter do ina? Make una allow OBI get peace of mind na shuo. PDP done mad, they won use back door enter power 😅🤣
Source: DailyPostNGR - 🏆 11. / 59 Read more »