Ekejiuba, who is the President of the Voters Rights Association of Nigeria, is also seeking N200m from each of the respondents as compensatory and general damages for the threatened violation or gross violation of his fundamental right to freedom from discrimination.
The suit was brought under Order 11, Rules 1 to 5 of the fundamental right 2009; Sections 42 and 46 and of the 1999 Constitution of Nigeria, as amended; and the inherent jurisdiction of the honourable court as preserved by Section 6 and of the 1999 Constitution of Nigeria, as amended. In the suit, the applicant is seeking a declaration, that “the administrative policy of the first to third respondents activated sometime on September 20, 2022, by the first to third respondents, which on the one hand threatened to deny and/or denied or refused to accord him his privilege or advantage to have a sense of belonging to the nation which he and other Southern Nigerian citizens are obliged to continue to benefit from the rotational Presidency of Nigeria headed by a fellow Southern...
“An order setting aside, nullifying, and/or voiding ab initio any election of the 5th Respondent as the next President of Nigeria to succeed President Muhammadu Buhari during the 2023 presidential election for the same being discriminatory against him and a gross violation of Section 42 of the 1999 Constitution of Nigeria as amended.”
Ekejiuba, in his legal grounds in support of the application, stated that his fundamental right to be accorded his privilege or advantage is protected under Section 42 of the 1999 Constitution of Nigeria as amended.All rights reserved. This material, and other digital content on this website, may not be reproduced, published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed in whole or in part without prior express written permission from PUNCH.
A failed country, does naija belong to hausa/fulani and yoruba alone, they should divide naija and allow every part to develop at their own pace.
The Nigerians will disqualified him during the election
I'm honestly not in support of any of the Presidential candidates being disqualified from contesting, particularly Tinubu and Atiku. I'll rather prefer they're retired from politics permanently via the votes of the majority of Nigerians for enabling GMB to become PMB in 2015.
Divide Nigeria and save lives