Plaintiffs in the two of the three pending suits challenging the eligibility of the President-elect, Muhammadu Buhari, to contest in the March 28, 2015, presidential election have been withdrawn.

Justice Adeniyi Ademola who is presiding over the matters at the Federal High Court in Abuja subsequently struck out the matter after the plaintiffs indicated their intention to withdraw the suits on Wednesday.

Chief Mike Ozekhome (SAN) who is representing one of the plaintiffs, told the judge on Wednesday that his client decided to withdraw his suit to afford the incoming government time to focus on the “enormous task” of governance.

When the second case which was filed by Max Ozoaka was called, his lawyer, Dr. Chike Amobi, also adduced similar grounds for withdrawing the suit.

With the Wednesday’s development, the remaining pending eligibility suit against Buhari is the one filed by Ayakeme Whiskey (FHC/ABJ/CS/68/15).

As of the time of filing this story, no date has been fixed for the hearing in the pending suit.

Buhari, who contested on the platform of the All Progressives Congress, was on April 1 declared winner of the election, defeating the incumbent President Goodluck Jonathan of the Peoples Democratic Party.

The plaintiffs had filed the suits challenging Buhari’s eligibility, asking the court to declare him ineligible to contest in the election on the basis of his alleged failure to submit his certificate of academic qualifications along with his Form CF001 to the Independent National Electoral Commission.

The plaintiffs claim that Buhari’s failure to submit his certificate of academic qualifications contravened provisions of sections 131 and 318 of the 1999 Constitution and section 31(3) of the Electoral Act, 2010.

source: [url]http://www.punchng.com/news/plaintiffs-withdraw-eligibility-suit-against-buhari/

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This is a very good move.lt will ensure that the incoming government has no distraction.GEJ is not going to the tribunal to challenge the result and the eligibity case has been withdrawn.Their is no immediate security challenges unlike in 2011 where the incoming govt had to battle with post election violence and most towns captured by bokoharam has been recaptured.

lf this government fails it cannot and will not be attributed to outside distraction and it will be clear that we have entered a one chance bus driven by baba one chance

Common sense prevails

Phew

THEY BERRA

We said it that it was an exercise in futility.

How could someone who rose to become a Major General in the Nigerian Army be said not to be qualified for an office which requires only the primary school certificate?

Next news please!

Buhariphobia at work!






























The wind of change has reflected on them!

Up APC!!!

Craze people. Is Buhari the only politician to run an elective position without a certificate if at all there was none?

God bless that wise Judge for the adjournment else the popular will of Nigerians would have been defeated.

10suits and none get head, na so witches go gather but will not prevail in your lives. Amen.

I said it Ozekhome or whateva he's called has no record of winning any serious case....he's more of a noise maker!

. I told my brother this morning that the case will eventually be withdrawn, because,the constitution says its the party and not candidate vies for elective position,what that means is that even if the court declares buhari not qualified kwankwaso will automatically become president by the virtue of the fact that He came second in the primary that produced buhari as the presidential candidate of APC.

Fear don catch them!!!

Now Let's go and dismantle the fraud called elections in Rivers and Akwai Ibom States!!

Anybody can take anybody to court,at the end of the day superior argument will prevail.

They've got their tails inbetween their legs.

Sai Buhari

Na wa o