Two lawyers, Mase Daphine Acho and
Saeeq Umar Sarki, as well as Murtala
Abubakar have dragged the ruling
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) before
the Federal High Court in Abuja over its
plan to field President Goodluck
Jonathan and Vice President Namadi
Sambo for the 2015 presidential
elections.
According to the lawyers, President
Jonathan and Vice President Sambo were
ineligible to be elected president and
vice president respectively.
Named as 1st to 4th defendants in the
suit filed on Friday, September 19, are
Jonathan, Sambo, PDP and the
Independent National Electoral
Commission (INEC) .
Their counsel, Mustapha Ibrahim, Mr.
Abdul Mohammed and Aliyu Lemu,
maintained that by virtue of the
Supreme Court’s decision in Marwa V
Nyako (2012) 6 NWLR (Part 1296) at 199,
both Jonathan and Sambo were ineligible
to be elected as President and Vice-
President respectively.
Jonathan and Sambo, according to the
counsel, have been shut out by the
provisions of the constitution which
states that no person can stay in office of
the president and vice president for
more than eight years.
“The current holders of the offices of the
president and the vice president, at the
expiration of their current terms in
office would have held their respective
office for a period of five years,” they
said.
According to the legal team to the
plaintiffs, Jonathan and Sambo had held
office for two terms recognised by the
1999 constitution to wit; (i) the first term
was held to conclude the un-expired
term of the late president, Umaru Musa
Yar’Adua between the 6th May 2010 to
29th May 2011; (ii) The second term is
still being served from the 29th May
2011 to 29th May 2015. They therefore
asked the court to declare that Jonathan
and Sambo do not have the capacity to
serve as president and vice president
respectively for another term of four
years after the completion of their
current terms in office in view of the
combined effect of the provisions of
sections 135(2) (a) and 137(b) of the
constitution.
The plaintiffs also want the court
to declare that Jonathan and Sambo
having already spent five years in office
as president and vice president
respectively are not eligible to contest
for the office of president and vice
president for another term of four years
thereby amounting to a contravention of
the combined provisions of sections
135(2) (a) and 137(b) of the constitution.
They also sought other reliefs including:
A declaration that the first oath of office
subscribed to by Jonathan on May 6th,
2010, being the oath of office
administered to him to occupy the office
of president for the purpose of
completion of the un-expired term of
office of the late president Yar’adua must
be taken into cognizance in computing
the number of years that he has served
and can serve as president, in
determining the effect of the combined
provisions of sections 135(2) (a) and
137(1)(b) of the constitution.
An order of the court restraining INEC
from recognising Jonathan and Sambo as
presidential and vice presidential
candidates of the PDP or any other
political party for the 2015 presidential
elections.
The plaintiffs claimed that allowing
Jonathan and Sambo to contest in the
2015 elections would amount to a breach
of the 1999 constitution which Jonathan
and Sambo swore to uphold.
They maintained that the intervention of
the court was required for an
interpretation of the provisions of the
1999 constitution.
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badbelle supporter of APC lawyers

Bunch of ignorant lawyers who does not know that the constitution said elected into an office and not just staying in office.

Maybe those lawyers attended Almajiri law school at Sudan.

Useless APC RODENTS.