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2023: Why Tinubu’s Candidacy Is Invalid – PDP

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Oct 9, 2022.

The PDP has revealed why Tinubu’s candidacy for president is invalid.

Eko Hot Blog reports that the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) says the nomination of Asiwaju Bola Tinubu as the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) is “invalid, null and void”.

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The party made the disclosure through its National Publicity Secretary, Debo Ologunagba, in a press briefing in Abuja, on Saturday.

It hinged the illegality of Tinubu’s nomination on a September 30, 2022, judgement which nullified the actions of Mai Mala Buni, governor of Yobe State.

Buni is the immediate past chairman of the APC national caretaker committee. His leadership conducted a convention which produced Abdullahi Adamu as the party’s national chairman.

In June, the Adamu-led executive committee conducted a presidential primary election where Tinubu defeated 13 others to emerge the APC nominee.

Ologunagba stated that the court judgement that nullified the candidate of the APC in the Osun State governorship election, Adgeboyega Oyetola, could be extended to the candidacy of Tinubu.

He claimed that Buni’s action as a serving governor and chairman of the caretaker committee was in contravention of Section 183 of the constitution.

Section 183 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999 (as amended) states that a state governor “shall not, during the period when he holds office, hold any other executive office or paid employment in any capacity whatsoever”.

“The import of the September 30, 2022 judgment of the Federal High Court is that every decision made by Governor Mai Mala Buni as Chairman of the APC is null and void as you cannot place something on nothing and expect it to stand,” Ologunagba said.

“Consequently, the Congresses as well as the National Convention which produced APC Excos including the Sen. Adamu Abdullahi-led NWC is void.

“In effect the primaries and Presidential Convention conducted by the Sen. Adamu Abdullahi-led NWC, including the nomination of Sen. Ahmed Bola Tinubu as Presidential Candidate of the APC is invalid, null and void ab-initio.”