EXCLUSIVE: Nigerian Court To Pronounce Jonathan ‘Constitutionally, Morally’ Qualified To Contest For 2023 President On Friday | Sahara Reporters.

The judgment which is the plan of the Aso Rock cabal supporting Jonathan is expected to be delivered by Justice Hamma Adama Dashen on Friday, multiple sources told SaharaReporters on Thursday

A Federal High Court sitting in Yenegoa, Bayelsa State will on Friday rule that former President Goodluck Jonathan is “constitutionally” qualified to contest for president in 2023, SaharaReporters has gathered.

Jonathan was Nigeria’s vice-president between 2007 and 2010. He became the president in May 2010 following the death of President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua and completed the latter’s tenure.

Jonathan won the 2011 presidential election but lost his attempt to secure a second term in office in 2015.

SaharaReporters learnt that Jonathan through a proxy, Andy Solomon approached the court praying he is “pre-eminently constitutionally, morally and legally qualified to contest the 2023 presidential election.”

The case with suit no FHC/YNG/CS/2022 has Andy Solomon as the plaintiff and the former President and two others as defendants.

The judgment which is the plan of the Aso Rock cabal supporting Jonathan is expected to be delivered by Justice Hamma Adama Dashen on Friday, multiple sources told SaharaReporters on Thursday.

Justice Dashen, born on April 4, 1962, hails from Adamawa State.

“The case is Andy Solomon vs Dr. Goodluck Jonathan & 2 Ors. I understand tomorrow (Friday) is the day for that judgement from the Federal High Court in Yenagoa declaring Goodluck Jonathan is eligible to contest.

“They are tying up their loose ends,” a source privy to the case told SaharaReporters on Thursday.

Following speculations that he was preparing to defect to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and seek the presidential ticket of the party, some Nigerians, including human rights lawyer Femi Falana, argued that his candidature will breach the constitution. But other Nigerians have also expressed different opinions on the issue.

Falana had based his position on Section 137 (3) of the Constitution, which provides as follows: “A person who was sworn in to complete the term for which another person was elected as president shall not be elected to such office for more than a single term.”

Falana had said, “Some people have said that the amendment is not retrospective and therefore cannot apply to Dr Jonathan. Assuming without conceding that the amendment is not retrospective it is submitted that under the current Constitution a President or Governor cannot spend more than two terms of eight years.

“In other words, the Constitution will not allow anyone to be in office for more than a cumulative period of 8 years. In Marwa v. Nyako (2012) 6 NWLR (Pt.1296) 199 at 387 the Supreme Court stated that Section 180 (1) and (2)(a) of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria has prescribed a single term of 4 years and if a second term, another period of 4 years and not a day longer.

“In the case of Governor Ladoja v INEC (2008)40 WRN 1 the Supreme Court rejected the prayer of Governor Ladoja for 11 months’ extension to cover the period he was kept out of office through illegal impeachment. The Supreme Court rejected the prayer on the ground that a Governor is entitled to spend a maximum period of eight years or less and not more than eight years.

“It is not in dispute that Dr. Jonathan became the President of Nigeria in 2010 following the sudden death of President Umaru Yar’Adua. He later contested and won the 2011 presidential election. Having spent five years in office as President, Dr. Jonathan is disqualified from contesting the 2023 presidential election. The reason is that if he wins the election, he will spend an additional term of four years. It means that he would spend a cumulative period of 9 years as President of Nigeria in utter breach of Section 137 of the Constitution which provides for a maximum two terms of eight years.”

Jonathan had recently rejected the presidential form of the ruling APC purchased for him, purportedly by a group of supporters from the northern region.

Speaking through his Media Adviser, Ikechukwu Eze, the former president said it was an insult for the group to have bought him the forms without his permission.

However, sources had told SaharaReporters that claims by the former President that he did not authorise the purchase of the multi-million-naira forms are far from the truth.

“Contrary to his denials, former President Goodluck Jonathan gave over N200 million to the governor of Jigawa, Mohammed Badaru, to purchase the APC nomination and expression of interest forms for him,” a source privy to the arrangement had told SaharaReporters.

Interestingly, the Jigawa governor, Badaru had also joined other interested presidential aspirants to vie for the ticket of the APC by buying the N100 million nomination and expression of interest forms.

“I will join the Presidential race since everyone knows I’m a highly qualified person to do the job,” Badaru was quoted as saying during an APC stakeholders’ meeting held at Government House in Dutse recently.

The governor was also said to have told the gathering during the meeting that he was pressurised by his colleagues to contest for the presidential seat.

His media aide, Auwalu Sankara, had said his principal had sought President Muhammadu Buhari’s blessings before buying the forms.

But SaharaReporters learnt that the Jigawa governor had bought the forms and come up with the statements as a ruse to deceive Nigerians; as he was indeed working for Jonathan.

It was further learnt that Jonathan had backed out of the plan and swiftly come up with the denial after the APC National Chairman, Abdullahi Adamu, had refused to guarantee that the former President would be the consensus candidate of the ruling party.

Jonathan was Nigeria’s leader as a member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), which is now an opposition party.

“The reason why he (Jonathan) gave him that much money – over N200 million – was that he asked the governor to buy himself a form too in order to cover up the deal,” a source had said.

“And upon purchasing the form, Jonathan alerted Buhari. Buhari told him to meet with the APC National Chairman, Abdullahi Adamu, but Adamu said he can’t guarantee him as a consensus candidate.

“At that point, GEJ (Goodluck Ebele Jonathan) started denying that he purchased the form,” another source had said.

SaharaReporters broke the story of how a cabal in the ruling APC had pushed for Jonathan to succeed Buhari, after being impressed by how the former President never openly criticised Buhari government despite its ineptitude and the insults the APC, as an opposition party, hurled at him (Jonathan) ahead of the 2015 presidential election.

The fact that Jonathan cannot spend more than one term in office, if they can manage to get him there, is also not lost on the cabal. However, SaharaReporters has also reported how Jonathan was later called a betrayer by the cabal after he failed to fulfil some of the conditions given to him, including convincing some PDP governors to defect to the APC.

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Who did Tinubu offend like this

I made a post yesterday that I gathered from a reliable source that Buhari preffered candidate has an Igbo name

Jonathan that will be declared Consensus on Saturday.

If Wike Loses the Primaries to Atiku, he will pull out his structures to make the ride easy to Aso Rock for his Boss GEJ, same thing Obi has done.

As per Thiefnibu, will be a miracle if he survives what is coming, considering his frail health.

If Goodluck Jonathan confirms that he is as DAFT as he was always painted, he will end up on the same history book page as Pres. Buhari. The conspiracy is simmering. He is being led by the nose by selfish cabal who will hold him hostage and put him in historical mud.

“A High Court sitting in Bayelsa will on Friday rule…”

Are you people preempting the court?

Or you guys now know what will happen tomorrow?

lol see princeofimo up there

Lmao!

Even the teenage branch of Tinubu urchins will have heartburn over this

Tinubu should announce his decamping now while he still can.

tollyboy5:
lol see princeofimo up there

Princeoflagos Lagba!

All his predictions are coming true before our very eyes.

PrinceOfLagos:
Who did Tinubu offend like this

I made a post yesterday that buhari I gathered from a reliable source that Buhari preffered candidate has an Igbo name

See as u dey confuse ursef. Mtcheeew

SledgeHammerer:



See as u dey confuse ursef. Mtcheeew

I am for anybody but Ashiere Tinubu

Yes yes yesh

ChoCho54:
Princeoflagos Lagba!

All his predictions are coming true before our very eyes.

Beer parlor prediction.

See the below incoming and outgoing

tollyboy5:

Beer parlor prediction.

See the below incoming and outgoing

This one wey tinubu don put for inside socks already

alsudan:
Jonathan that will be declared Consensus on Saturday.

If Wike Loses the Primaries to Atiku, he will pull out his structures to make the ride easy to Aso Rock for his Boss GEJ, same thing Obi has done.

As per Thiefnibu, will be a miracle if he survives what is coming, considering his frail health.

I don't know whether you sleep and dream Tinubu ?

alsudan:
Jonathan that will be declared Consensus on Saturday.

If Wike Loses the Primaries to Atiku, he will pull out his structures to make the ride easy to Aso Rock for his Boss GEJ, same thing Obi has done.

As per Thiefnibu, will be a miracle if he survives what is coming, considering his frail health.

Naso una analyze ATIKU winning 2019

ChoCho54:
This one wey tinubu don put for inside socks already

Your Vice president. And next president, show some respect please

Watching i

PrinceOfLagos:
Who did Tinubu offend like this

I made a post yesterday that I gathered from a reliable source that Buhari preffered candidate has an Igbo name

Ibo boy, fake princeoflagos from Owerri , Imo state in d barren iboland, ehn, in d next 48hrs, ur sifia pain go worsen

Only you, u dey jump around from supporting ur ibo fulani daddy Atiku to Amaechi to GEJ like rabid dog just because u hate Tinubu and Yoruba people.

U go wail until 2031 wen power go retirn to north after Tinubu don finish hin 2 terms.
Uwazutuike don tell una how una be. shioor

tollyboy5:

Your Vice president. And next president, show some respect please

How can I show more respect than I have done when same guy you people said was Star boy is now known as Odale

ChoCho54:
How can I show more respect than I have done when same guy you people said was Star boy is now known as Odale

You're wicked

From Star Boy to "Judas"

PrinceOfLagos:

I am for anybody but Ashiere Tinubu

Yes yes yesh

Buhari don do d consensus? Hahahahahahahaha.....I laff oooooo.
Bubu don go malabo for 3days AU summit. Kikikikikikiki.....

We will appeal the judgment immediately.

Nigerian politics is the worst

People are being served breakfast and it is bound to continue

All the people we thought were condemning bad governance are collecting millions as delegates to gift us calamity and advice us to choose between two the devil has the deep blue sea

Banky W won PDP House of Reps ticket in Lagos, but in the result submitted to Abuja, they found out he lost

Nigeria will never be good

The clueless man will embarrass himself again.

I can assure him that he will be thoroughly and roundly defeated

Can't wait to see our darling first lady in the office again. "There is God oooooh". Meanwhile, mama has a Ph.D. now oooo.

Ok

If this eventually happens, then APC is finished. GEJ can not win the election in this present dispensation.
Can't wait to see Reno's face on this

So Na wetin APC dey wait be dis

They sha wan this man disgraced by all means

Technically, he is