A Federal High Court in Abuja is to hear a suit seeking the disqualification of the former Vice President Atiku Abubakar from participating in the forthcoming presidential election.
Atiku, on Saturday, secured the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential ticket ahead of the 2023 election.
In a suit, marked FHC/ABJ/CS/751/2022, filed by a constitutional lawyer, Mr. Johnmary Jideobi argued that Atiku is not qualified to participate in the presidential contest on account of his citizenship.
Joined in the suit are the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), PDP and the Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF), Abubakar Malami.
Jideobi who is the plaintiff in the case, is praying the court to among others, determine “Whether by the combined provisions of sections 1(1) & (2), 25 and 131(a) of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 (as amended), only a Nigeria citizen by birth can contest for the office of the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria?
“Whether by the combined interpretation of sections 1(1) & (2), 25(1) & (2) and 131(a) of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 (as amended), and giving the circumstances surrounding the birth of the 1st Defendant, he can be cleared by the 2nd and 3rd Defendants to contest for the office of the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria?”
