The plaintiffs who filed one of the suits before a
Federal High Court, Abuja to challenge the
eligibility of President Goodluck Jonathan to seek
re-election in the March 28 presidential election
have withdrawn the case.
Justice Ahmed Mohammed on Wednesday struck
out the suit following an application by the
plaintiffs to discontinue the suit.
The court also ordered the plaintiffs to pay
N50,000 to Jonathan whose lawyers had been
made to file responses before the decision to
withdraw the suit.
The plaintiffs are Prof. Tunde Samuel, Dr. Junaidu
Mohammed, Mr. Rasak Adeogun and Yahaya
Ezeemoo Ndu. President Jonathan was the only
defendant in the suit.
The court had on February 3, 2015 fixed
Wednesday for the hearing of the suit. But the
notice of discontinuance of the suit was filed on
February 4.
A counsel for the plaintiffs, Mr. Alex Akoja, who
appeared in court on Wednesday, said the
plaintiffs gave the instruction to withdraw the suit
and the notice of discontinuance was
subsequently filed on February 4.
Jonathan’s counsel, Mr. Ade Okeanya-Inneh
(SAN), did not oppose the application but asked
for cost on the grounds that the calibre of six
senior counsel, including Mallam Yusuf Ali (SAN),
who filed the suit ought to have weighed the merit
of the case before instituting it.
He added that his client was entitled to cost
because he had been made to file responses to
the suit.
The court agreed with the the defence counsel,
and therefore in striking out the suit, it awarded
the cost of N50,000 against the plaintiffs.
There are about two other suits challenging
Jonathan’s eligibility to seek another term in
office, still pending before Justice Mohammed.
On Monday, the judge referred one of the cases to
the Court of Appeal for determination following an
application filed on November 28 by the plaintiffs
in the suit – Adejumo Ajagbe and Olatoye Wahab.
The ruling by the court on Monday now made it
the second of such cases now pending before the
Court of Appeal.
The plaintiffs in the suits, including the one that
was withdrawn on Wednesday, contended that
Jonathan was ineligible to re-contest for the office
of the President, arguing that allowing him to do
so could amount to spending more than eight
years allowed for anyone to serve in the office.
They want the court to declare that it was
“unconstitutional, unlawful, illegal and not
permissible for any person to occupy the office of
the president of Nigeria for more than a
cumulative and aggregate period of eight years
when the country was not at war.”
They contended that if Jonathan won another term
of four years from 2015, he would have been
permitted to occupy the office of the President for
more than eight years.
They asked the court to declare that in computing
the period already spent in office as President by
Jonathan, the period from May 6, 2010 to May 28,
2011 should be reckoned with.
They also sought a declaration that having spent
a period of more than four years in office as
President since May 6, 2010, Jonathan no longer
had the “competence, authority or entitlement to
contest for the same office for another term of
four years.”
www.punchng.com/news/don-others-withdraw-eligibility-suit-against-jonathan/

Why na?

MarchBuhari#

Buhari is a learner. up Jonathan till 2019. click share for Jonathan jor. nor mind those APshit people.

i was so happy when APC was registered, but they let me down and my friends when they presented buhari as candidate

Let him contest and be sent packing to the zoo where his fellow monkeys dwell

ukese:
i was so happy when APC was registered, but they let me down and my friends when they presented buhari as candidate

God punish dat your black yansh.. Go and die asap you and your f''ucking brainless friends!

thaoriginator:
God punish dat your black yansh.. Go and die asap you and your f''ucking brainless friends!

you are a brainless ediot

One by one, the enemies of progress will continue to bow.


GEJ till 2019.

CyberWolf:
you are a brainless ediot

ur fada and mada ediots

thaoriginator:
Let him contest and be sent packing to the zoo where his fellow monkeys dwell

na you won pack am go zoo? tell your master to present his certificate. inec wants to see it.

clevvermind:
na you won pack am go zoo? tell your master to present his certificate. inec wants to see it.

way-ray


You're still clinging to this cert issue? You're on a long thing like D'Banj.. You better look for something else to campaign with.

Lol! Tune in to NTA now and see how your clowns in PDP are doing campaign in rivers. It's more like a comedy show than a political rally

Is this what you want?