₦airaland Forum

An Abuja High Court, yesterday
fixed Monday next week for its
ruling on whether or not
President Goodluck Jonathan can contest the Presidential election under the constitution of the People's Democratic Party (PDP), in view of the controversial zoning arrangement of the party.

Ishaq Bello, the presiding judge fixed Monday January 10, to deliver judgment in a suit filed by three members of the PDP: Yahaya Kwande, Dubem Onyia and Lawal Kaita.
Specifically, the trio are asking
the court to stop PDP and the
Independent National Electoral
Commission (INEC) from fielding and accepting Mr Jonathan as the party's presidential candidate in
the April, 2011 presidential
election.

The PDP; its National Chairman,
Okwesileze Nwodo; Mr Jonathan and INEC are joined as defendants in the suit.

The South Gauteng High Court in South Africa has dismissed Henry Okah's application for leave to appeal the decision to deny him bail.

In November, Mr. Okah, who is
standing trial for his alleged
involvement in last year's
Independence Day bombings in Abuja that claimed the lives of 12 people and injured 36 others, was denied bail by the
Johannesburg Magistrate's Court.

His brother Charles Okah and
three others were also denied
bail in a Nigerian court.

Mr. Okah is in custody in
Johannesburg Prison.