The Honorable Justice Ademola Adeniyi sitting at
the Federal High Court 7, Abuja on Thursday 26th,
May 2016 dismissed the Preliminary Objections
filed by President Muhammadu Buhari in the case
instituted against him, the Independent National
Electoral Commission (INEC) and the All
Progressives Congress (APC) in Suit No. FHC/ABJ/
CS/110/2015 by an Abuja based Legal Practitioner,
Barr. Nnamdi Nwokocha-Ahaaiwe challenging his
competence to stand election into the office of
President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria when
he lacks the basic educational qualifications set out in the Constitution, SIGNAL reports .
The development has reportedly thrown the
Nigerian presidency into disquiet as President
Buhari and his handlers greeted the ruling with
shock, as very few Nigerians including members of
Buhari’s government realized the case was still in
court.
According to an informed source on the
development, the ruling has caught the Buhari
presidency unawares and has posed a big
distraction for government activities at the Villa.
“Nobody even knew the case was still on. The story
was not even reported in the mainstream media. No
paper carried the Thursday ruling. But I can tell you
the Presidency is rattled and seriously hoping that the case does not resurface
again in the public domain because of the huge
embarrassment it could cause the President. But
more importantly, there are concerns about the
safety of the judge and the plaintiff”, the source
disclosed.
Recall that in February 2015, Nnamdi Nwokocha-
Ahaaiwe, Esq. filed an Originating Summons at the
Federal High Court, Abuja praying the Court to
among others declare that Buhari is unqualified to
aspire to the position of President not having sat for
the Secondary School Certificate and also deposing
to a false affidavit about his educational
qualifications contrary to the Electoral Act.
Buhari and the APC instead of entering a defence on
the merits and exhibiting any educational
certificates obtained by Buhari, tried to frustrate the
hearing of the case by filing several objections to
the competence of the action.
President Buhari reportedly retained over twenty
SANs led by Chief Wole Olanipekun, Chief Akin
Olujinmi, Femi Falana, etc., who for over one year
now have failed to file any defence for Buhari or
APC but instead used every trick in the book to
delay the case.
But on Thursday, the Hon. Justice Ademola Adeniyi
in his ruling on the case, dismissed all applications
by the defendant as totally lacking in merit. He held
that the suit filed by Nnamdi Nwokocha-Ahaaiwe
was competent and the service on Buhari and APC was also competent.
He thereafter adjourned the case to the 16th day of
June 2016 for hearing of the substantive Originating
Summons to determine whether Buhari’s
educational qualifications meets the minimum
standards required by the Constitution.
According to reports made available to SIGNAL,
only the counsel to INEC was in Court, the plaintiff
was absent but wrote to the Court explaining that he
received notice of the date for the ruling the
previous night and was out of town and could not
make it. APC (2nd Respondent) and Buhari (3rd
Respondent) were absent, were not represented
and did not write to Court.
It will be recalled that there were claims by online
handlers of the All Progressives Congress (APC)
that the Nigerian Army located President
Buhari’s “missing certificate” after the elections.
The missing certificate saga raised contention as to
the eligibility of Buhari to contest the presidential
election. However, it is on record that there was no
official statement by the Nigerian Army up till this
day corroborating claims that the certificate has
been found.
IGBERE TV will now monitor this case and present
updates as they come.

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Buhari here,Buhari there. Everyone just want to talk. By one way or d oda,ppu want to vex their hanger. Nigerians,I hail thee. Leave Buhari alone oooo. Dnt mouthkill him for us. E go beta. Let's be patient.

kenonze:
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LOL, don't blame him much. He wants to be a blogger or a writer and he is learning the art well. Just let him be

This is serious oh!

no wonder the sherrifat in daura looked sick while giving his lackluster demoCRAZY day speech................ THE STUPID PDP WISHED HIM QUICK RECOVERY, well i wish that the goddamus will halala gbosa on his coconut that same wogged shetos that yaradua jammad on his way to shelter, that is to say that bubu's case will equal the keske of comrade ezi whose iberibelistic nature made him to trypano and rotate to gala beef at this same keske ojodui mentinol......... i have just vibrated via the capacity of muaness iweka road onitsha at this time tita............. the goddamus are still on skirt and blouse

Why should o level be the qualification for office of president. Nigeria is crazy. When o level can't even work as office assistance then the president of nigeria qualification is o level. It should be masters or phd. We need serious help in orientation in this country of fools..

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