The Action Alliance (AA) has asked a Federal High Court in Abuja to stop the Independent National Electoral Commission from including the name of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the ballot of the 2023 presidential election.
The party also asked the court for an order restraining the electoral umpire from accepting the name of Bola Tinubu as the APC presidential candidate in the forthcoming general elections.
The plaintiff, in the Writ of Summons marked: FHC/ABJ/CS/954/2022, predicated its request on the claim that both the APC and its presidential candidate were not qualified to participate in the 2023 presidential election on alleged forgery committed by Tinubu in 1999.
The suit filed on behalf of the plaintiff by its lawyer, Upkai Ukairo, claimed that Tinubu forged the University of Chicago certificate he submitted in 1999 to aid his qualification for the 1999 governorship election in Lagos State, which was won by him.
The suit has INEC, APC and Tinubu as first, second and third defendants respectively.
