Human rights lawyer, Femi Falana (SAN), has threatened to drag the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and other parties to court over the sale of nomination form to aspirants in the 2019 election.

The senior lawyer insisted that previous court judgments have prohibited such payment.

His reaction followed PDP’s decision to sell nomination forms for N12 million to its presidential candidates for the 2019 election.

Falana blamed President Muhammadu Buhari for his inability to change the guideline despite expressing disappointment that he took a loan of N27m to buy the APC nomination form during the 2015 elections.

He told Punch: “The conditions for contesting elections from local government, to the House of Assembly, governorship, House of Representatives, Senate and presidential levels, are all in the constitution.

“There are decisions of the court to the effect that the Independent National Electoral Commission and state electoral commissions cannot collect fees from candidates who are contesting elections.

“So, if I am going to contest election, you can’t ask me to pay N27m as nomination fee because that is unknown to the constitution.

“Therefore, the parties cannot decide their own rules. They cannot impose prohibitive rules that will restrict the participation in the contest of an election to moneybags.

“Of course, we may have to sue the political parties if they continue this illegality. We cannot go on like this.

“Aggrieved party members should be encouraged to challenge the prohibitive nomination fees imposed on aspirants by political parties.

“I believe any citizen, who meets the requirements outlined in the Constitution, is qualified to contest any election. Political parties cannot add to the constitutional requirements.”

http://www.mcebisco.com.ng/2018/06/2019-election-falana-threatens-to-drag.html

hediot that should sue Buhari for terrorissing the Masses and raping our democracy and freedom of expression....

this man is almost useless to ordinary Nigerians causing confusion up and down like an integrity challenged person.
the funny thing is after making so much noise we won't hear anything about the case again as if to say he does it to collect bribe at the back.

Falana please when will you sue the entire Nigeria government for still using a military constitution .
you cannot be romancing with APC in the dark and coming out in daylight to be saying gilberish.

the blockheads above

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the blockheads above

shut up if you don't have anything to say falana cannot decide how the parties will be run ,why did he not sue APC that used 27million for nomination forms in 2015 yet he supported them .If he thinks this is 2015 where he was used by the evil party he is joking.
falana is from ekiti state with all is noise making he should have gone to test his popularity with fayose at the governorship elections.

Some people are like that they follow the spirit to kill a human being afterwards join human in condolence visit.Chameleon style which they called sophisticated but l see it as devils game.