Victory For Tinubu As Court Dismisses Another Case Challenging His Candidacy

Another case challenging Tinubu’s candidacy has been dismissed.

EKO HOT BLOG reports that the Director, Media & Publicity of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Presidential Campaign Council, Bayo Onanuga, has confirmed the dismissal of yet another suit challenging the candidacy of the party’s flag bearer Bola Tinubu.

According to him, a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has dismissed the case challenging Tinubu’s candidacy ahead of the 2023 polls.

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This online media platform understands that Onanuga, in a statement, noted that this is the fourth case being dismissed against Tinubu in the last couple of weeks.

The latest of the case with suit No: FHC/ABJ/CS/854/2022 being dismissed by Justice Fadima Aminu Muritala of the Federal High Court was instituted by Elder Ngozika Ihuoma, who dragged Tinubu and five others to court on 9 June 2022 after the former his principal won the APC presidential primary election.

Ihuoma was reported to have sought six reliefs, which included INEC barring Tinubu from contesting the 2023 presidential election.

However Justice Muritala he said dismissed the case for being speculative after APC’s counsel, Julius Ishola Esq from Babatunde Ogala & Co urged the Court to dismiss it with heavy costs for wasting judicial time.

Onanuga advanced that Justice Muritala described the plaintiff, Elder Ngozika Ihuoma as a “meddlesome interloper having no locus standi to institute the suit.”

He also revealed that in defense of the suit, the law office of Babatunde Ogala (SAN) & Co, on behalf of All Progressives Congress, filed a counter affidavit in opposition to the Originating Summons and a Notice of Preliminary Objection.

The counter affidavit challenged Ihuoma’s locus standi and grounds for the action, noting punctured Ihuoma’s case as academic, theoretical, and an abuse of the court process.

It sought a court declaration that the case was speculative, pre-emptive, and non-justiciable, being the internal affairs of a political party.

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On that premise, the court on Monday upheld the defense counsel’s objections and struck out the case.

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