Nigeria’s highest court, The Supreme Court today quashed the
suit against President Goodluck Jonathan that sought to disqualify him from
participating in next year’s presidential election.
According to Vanguard Reports, the appeal was struck out by a
five-man panel of Justices of the apex court presided over by the Chief
Justice of Nigeria, CJN, Justice Mahmud Mohammed.
The suit was filed by a chieftain of the Peoples’ Democratic
Party, PDP, from Adamawa State, Dr. Umar Ardo.
The CJN, while delivering the ruling
yesterday, had condemned
Ardo for inviting the Supreme Court to arrest a proceeding pending before the
Abuja Division of the Court of Appeal.
He posited that since the substantive suit challenging
Jonathan’s eligibility is currently before the appellate court, Ardo lacked
the locus-standi to move the apex court to either take over hearing on the
matter or compel the appeal court to join him as an interested party in the
pending appeal.
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