Nigeria's electoral body has been told to allow Vice-President Atiku Abubakar to run for president in April's poll.

1. Court of Apeal: INEC can disqualify candidate. But it did not say, that Atiku is disqualified.

2. Federal High Court: INEC must allow Atiku to contest. That was specific to the Subject, Atiku.

We have to realize that this electoral process, our democracy and the fate of our nation is bigger than all of us.

Justice Abubakar, who had earlier dismissed the objection raised by government to the suit, also held that the electoral body was bereft of the constitutional power to stop the Vice President from contesting at the polls.

His judgment read in parts: "The report of the Administrative Panel of Inquiry, which the Defendant (INEC) relied on to exclude the Plaintiff, has been set aside by Akande J. of a Lagos High Court. The defendant cannot use the effect of the same report to deny the Plaintiff the right to contest.

jockey112:



its not about atiku its about empowerment to institutions like inec,efcc and co that they have the right to stop the aspirations of corrupt and shameless people to rule nigeria.if atiku has got any moral he would have resign long time , MR VP learn from your neighbour in south africa,

to every loving nigerian home and abroad its time to vote and move the nation forward forget about the distractions.

Among these two which is higher?

FEDERAL HIGH COURT VERDICT or COURT OF APPEAL

INEC can base their disqualification on any of these.

President of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Mr Olisa Agbakoba, SAN, has said Vice President Atiku Abubakar, presidential candidate of Action Congress (AC), was not disqualified from contesting the April 21 presidential election, and anybody who thinks otherwise based on the judgment of the Court of Appeal, Abuja last Tuesday, is interpreting the judgment wrongly.
Agbakoba said this in a chat with newsmen yesterday, adding that by the judgment of Justice Tijani Abubakar of a Federal High Court, Abuja, Atiku is still in the presidential race.
He said the judgment of the Court of Appeal, which held that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), can screen and disqualify a candidate presented to it by a political party did not disqualify Atiku, but merely resolved the issue that INEC has the power to screen and disqualify a candidate.
Agbakoba stated that the two judgments were not contradictory, but complementary, noting that while the Court of Appeal dealt on the issue of INEC’s power to disqualify, the Federal High Court reviewed the process of disqualification, which INEC exercised. According to him, we have accepted that Court of Appeal judgment that INEC can disqualify. The Court of Appeal addressed the issue that INEC looking at papers presented by a candidate, can disqualify a candidate, and not that Atiku had been disqualified as reported by most newspapers.

Why was Atiku let out the middle hole, Why!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

toshmann:

I want Atiku to contest (if he wins the court cases)
I want the judiciary to remain independent and fair
I want INEC to obey all court orders
I want free and fair elections
I want Atiku to be heavily defeated at the polls

are these possible?
then nobody will pretend to be a victim. my concern is law and order and not OBJ/ATIKU. let them go.

THE Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) yesterday prayed the Court of Appeal, Abuja Division, to upturn the judgment of a Federal High Court in Abuja, directing it to include the name of Vice President Atiku Abubakar on the list of presidential candidates for the April 21 polls.

That's the sad thing about democracy, you can vote for who you want even if it means the death of Nigeria