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Jonathan Eligibility Suit: Plaintiff And His Counsel Absent In Court by etokhana(op): 9:46pm On May 11

A Federal High Court in Abuja has adjourned proceedings in the suit challenging the eligibility of former President Goodluck Jonathan to contest the 2027 presidential election, following the absence of the plaintiff and his counsel in court.

The court fixed May 15, 2026, for hearing and warned that punitive costs may be awarded against them if there is another failure to appear.

When proceeding commenced , counsel for the first defendant, Chris Uche, SAN, drew the court’s attention to the absence of the plaintiff’s Lawyer despite the matter having earlier been adjourned at his instance.

The court subsequently asked the registrar if any formal communication had been received explaining the lawyers absence, but the registrar response was negative.

Issues surrounding service of hearing notices also emerged during proceedings, as it was revealed that the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, and the Attorney-General of the Federation, AGF, had not been served, contrary to an earlier order of the court made on May 8.

Uche maintained his application for the matter to be struck out, arguing that even where parties have exchanged processes and issues have been joined, the court still retains the power to dismiss or strike out a matter for lack of diligent prosecution.

He further argued that the plaintiff had a responsibility to ensure proper service of all court processes and hearing notices, particularly in a matter of public importance involving the eligibility of a former President to seek office.

According to him, the court file showed that INEC and the AGF had neither been properly served nor filed any response in the suit.

https://ait.live/jonathans-eligibility-plaintiff-counsel-absent-in-court/

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Re: Jonathan Eligibility Suit: Plaintiff And His Counsel Absent In Court by sweerychick(f): 9:49pm On May 11

I don't think Jonathan is even serious about contesting

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Re: Jonathan Eligibility Suit: Plaintiff And His Counsel Absent In Court by vr0xen: 9:58am On May 12

Pls move to joke section mbok

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Re: Jonathan Eligibility Suit: Plaintiff And His Counsel Absent In Court by WorkTheTalk(m): 10:00am On May 12

What are all these distractions all about? Anywhere, anything to confuse Tinubu and APC's witchcraft coven is allowed.

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Re: Jonathan Eligibility Suit: Plaintiff And His Counsel Absent In Court by MEGA4BILLION(m): 10:00am On May 12

The sole aim of the plaintiff was to make headlines

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Re: Jonathan Eligibility Suit: Plaintiff And His Counsel Absent In Court by franchasofficia: 10:00am On May 12

Jonathan, I ask you, where is your votes coming from?

Your biggest supporters and defenders who stopped Buhari and APC from prosecuting you after they ganged up and removed you from office is Igbos, now Igbos cannot support you again now that they feel they have a more qualified candidate who also happens to be an Igbo man, Peter Obi, so I ask again, who do you think will vote you Jonathan?

Is it Southwest people that called you drunkard and paraded your kofinn? Who begged Buhari to jail you?

Is it Northerners that framed you up with sham Chibok Girls kidnap?

Your Southsouth people even abandoned you and moved on while Igbos kept defending you and made several enemies while defending you and still you dont want to return the favor by supporting a qualified Igbo candidate to emerge President? Jonathan you are shooting yourself in the leg, you better think again because they are misleading you.

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Re: Jonathan Eligibility Suit: Plaintiff And His Counsel Absent In Court by chicfarmer: 10:01am On May 12

It is deliberate. They know what they are doing..

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Re: Jonathan Eligibility Suit: Plaintiff And His Counsel Absent In Court by Gotocourt: 10:01am On May 12

Tinubu wants to use judiciary to stop GEJ

Re: Jonathan Eligibility Suit: Plaintiff And His Counsel Absent In Court by BarrElChapo(m): 10:03am On May 12

I’ll keep saying it. The Politics that APC (the alliance of Buhari and BAT) pinky and brain 😂 introduced to this country. Has set us back my at least 30 years.

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Re: Jonathan Eligibility Suit: Plaintiff And His Counsel Absent In Court by SmartPolician: 10:04am On May 12

sweerychick:
I don't think Jonathan is even serious about contesting

Jonathan has never been serious with anything in life

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Re: Jonathan Eligibility Suit: Plaintiff And His Counsel Absent In Court by ceejay80s(m): 10:05am On May 12

sweerychick:
I don't think Jonathan is even serious about contesting

APC is just using tactics to split votes among other parties,
did Jonathan tell U guys he is contesting?
election is less than a year and other contestants in parties are rallying, holding conventions, where una see Jonathan, person wey dey house on-top mama peace na him una dey disturb him life

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Re: Jonathan Eligibility Suit: Plaintiff And His Counsel Absent In Court by techbro1: 10:08am On May 12

You people really think Jonathan is interested in ruling this country again? grin

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Re: Jonathan Eligibility Suit: Plaintiff And His Counsel Absent In Court by wehdone(m): 10:08am On May 12

Jonathan will defeat BAT in a Free and Fair election

Re: Jonathan Eligibility Suit: Plaintiff And His Counsel Absent In Court by OredoPikin: 10:08am On May 12

sweerychick:
I don't think Jonathan is even serious about contesting

Did he ever tell you he was going to contest?
All these na propaganda from APC media to douse Obi tension

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Re: Jonathan Eligibility Suit: Plaintiff And His Counsel Absent In Court by Ofunaofu: 10:11am On May 12

Imagine filing a lawsuit only to start running from it.

The court should award punitive costs for wasting judicial time and abusing court process.

Re: Jonathan Eligibility Suit: Plaintiff And His Counsel Absent In Court by FutureFocus: 10:12am On May 12*

God knows best! Yes he does

Re: Jonathan Eligibility Suit: Plaintiff And His Counsel Absent In Court by DeltaBachelor(m): 10:15am On May 12

lol. Orisirisi something. I don’t think Jonathan wants to contest sha

Re: Jonathan Eligibility Suit: Plaintiff And His Counsel Absent In Court by Exousiang01(m): 10:29am On May 12

franchasofficia:
Jonathan, I ask you, where is your votes coming from?

Your biggest supporters and defenders who stopped Buhari and APC from prosecuting you after they ganged up and removed you from office is Igbos, now Igbos cannot support you again now that they feel they have a more qualified candidate who also happens to be an Igbo man, Peter Obi, so I ask again, who do you think will vote you Jonathan?

Is it Southwest people that called you drunkard and paraded your kofinn? Who begged Buhari to jail you?

Is it Northerners that framed you up with sham Chibok Girls kidnap?

Your Southsouth people even abandoned you and moved on while Igbos kept defending you and made several enemies while defending you and still you dont want to return the favor by supporting a qualified Igbo candidate to emerge President? Jonathan you are shooting yourself in the leg, you better think again because they are misleading you.

I like your sense of imagination.
The fact that you believe the things you imagine makes it even more amazing.

How old are you again?
LoL...
It said Igbos stopped Buhari and APC government from persecuting Goodluck
Is that what your father told you?

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Re: Jonathan Eligibility Suit: Plaintiff And His Counsel Absent In Court by magoo10(m): 10:35am On May 12

The court should throw the unserious plaintiff away Jonathan is eligible to contest.

Re: Jonathan Eligibility Suit: Plaintiff And His Counsel Absent In Court by Saint99: 10:44am On May 12

Inasmuch as I am not against his contesting, I still feel that it is below his status at this time, and may erode whatever good legacy he has.. He wasn't fantastic during his time such that everyone wanted him out including the Western superpowers. He regained his international standing when he handed over, which is the only thing I guess he would be remembered for as per the African standard. Defeated incumbent heads of state around the world, hand over power every day to their opponents and it is not a bíg deal.

Re: Jonathan Eligibility Suit: Plaintiff And His Counsel Absent In Court by Mrexcell(m): 10:56am On May 12

franchasofficia:
Jonathan, I ask you, where is your votes coming from?

Your biggest supporters and defenders who stopped Buhari and APC from prosecuting you after they ganged up and removed you from office is Igbos, now Igbos cannot support you again now that they feel they have a more qualified candidate who also happens to be an Igbo man, Peter Obi, so I ask again, who do you think will vote you Jonathan?

Is it Southwest people that called you drunkard and paraded your kofinn? Who begged Buhari to jail you?

Is it Northerners that framed you up with sham Chibok Girls kidnap?

Your Southsouth people even abandoned you and moved on while Igbos kept defending you and made several enemies while defending you and still you dont want to return the favor by supporting a qualified Igbo candidate to emerge President? Jonathan you are shooting yourself in the leg, you better think again because they are misleading you.

Buhari and apc almost finished igbos because of their support for Jonathan funny how the ijaw nation or gej himself is even yet to acknowledge and appreciate igbos for all the trauma they went through.

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Re: Jonathan Eligibility Suit: Plaintiff And His Counsel Absent In Court by Cmeo(m): 10:57am On May 12

Omo, see technical strategy to ensure that the judgement is not delivered before PDP primary schedule and INEC deadline.

Re: Jonathan Eligibility Suit: Plaintiff And His Counsel Absent In Court by sweerychick(f): 11:41am On May 12

SmartPolician:
Jonathan has never been serious with anything in life

I don't understand why he can't come out straight and say No I am not interested in running for president.

Re: Jonathan Eligibility Suit: Plaintiff And His Counsel Absent In Court by Maj196(m): 11:51am On May 12

sweerychick:
I don't think Jonathan is even serious about contesting

He's not interested, they're just forcing it down his throat

Re: Jonathan Eligibility Suit: Plaintiff And His Counsel Absent In Court by ruzell86: 12:15pm On May 12

Saint99:
Inasmuch as I am not against his contesting, I still feel that it is below his status at this time, and may erode whatever good legacy he has.. He wasn't fantastic during his time such that everyone wanted him out including the Western superpowers. He regained his international standing when he handed over, which is the only thing I guess he would be remembered for as per the African standard. Defeated incumbent heads of state around the world, hand over power every day to their opponents and it is not a bíg deal.

GEJ's time in office and whatever he did is far better than the tenures of Buhari and Tinubu combined.

Re: Jonathan Eligibility Suit: Plaintiff And His Counsel Absent In Court by victoryenergy: 1:03pm On May 12

franchasofficia:
Jonathan, I ask you, where is your votes coming from?

Your biggest supporters and defenders who stopped Buhari and APC from prosecuting you after they ganged up and removed you from office is Igbos, now Igbos cannot support you again now that they feel they have a more qualified candidate who also happens to be an Igbo man, Peter Obi, so I ask again, who do you think will vote you Jonathan?

Is it Southwest people that called you drunkard and paraded your kofinn? Who begged Buhari to jail you?

Is it Northerners that framed you up with sham Chibok Girls kidnap?

Your Southsouth people even abandoned you and moved on while Igbos kept defending you and made several enemies while defending you and still you dont want to return the favor by supporting a qualified Igbo candidate to emerge President? Jonathan you are shooting yourself in the leg, you better think again because they are misleading you.

Igbos were one of the biggest beneficiaries of Johnathan government, go and find out, the problem here is not if Igbo has a candidate or not, I myself voted for Obi in 2023, the problem here is the political calculations as at today, doesn't favours the Igbo candidate, the Obi one term agenda, is not viable because of trust from the northern part of Nigeria.
Let's look at it this way, Obi can not do much in only one term, as president, you and I know that, secondly the issue of trust from the north, Obi has a constitutional right of two term as president, which he can use in 2031, either anybody like it or not, so the north might see this as a high risk, and may finally succumb to TINUBU, second term ambition, because it will be an easy ride for power to return back to the north, the reason Johnathan should contest is to save Nigeria from the claws of APC, probably implement the 2014 confab report, because this is the best he can do, if he comes back, and has only one term constitutionally, and the north will find it safe to support him than obi,to be a Nigerian president you need strong backing and support from the north, Johnathan has this qualities, the north will not think twice before backing and supporting Johnathan if he contest, because he has been tested and trusted, because of 2015 election, where he called and congratulated Buhari even before the result were announced. so this is the situation we are now, I don't know if you will comprehend with this fact, though I still doubt if he will contest. but he would have been the best candidate to defeat TINUBU in 2027.

Re: Jonathan Eligibility Suit: Plaintiff And His Counsel Absent In Court by Nackzy: 3:51pm On May 12

Tinubu is really scared of everything

Re: Jonathan Eligibility Suit: Plaintiff And His Counsel Absent In Court by MrSly(m): 9:04pm On May 12

franchasofficia:
Jonathan, I ask you, where is your votes coming from?

Your biggest supporters and defenders who stopped Buhari and APC from prosecuting you after they ganged up and removed you from office is Igbos, now Igbos cannot support you again now that they feel they have a more qualified candidate who also happens to be an Igbo man, Peter Obi, so I ask again, who do you think will vote you Jonathan?

Is it Southwest people that called you drunkard and paraded your kofinn? Who begged Buhari to jail you?

Is it Northerners that framed you up with sham Chibok Girls kidnap?

Your Southsouth people even abandoned you and moved on while Igbos kept defending you and made several enemies while defending you and still you dont want to return the favor by supporting a qualified Igbo candidate to emerge President? Jonathan you are shooting yourself in the leg, you better think again because they are misleading you.

I'd he comes out he will be humiliated and demystified.

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