Ex-minister loses suit challenging Tinubu, Atiku’s candidacy

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Ex-minister loses suit challenging Tinubu, Atiku’s candidacy

The Supreme Court, on Thursday, dismissed an appeal, which sought to disqualify the presidential candidates of the All Progressives Congress, Bola Tinubu, and that of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar, from the February 25 presidential poll.

The appeal was lodged by a former Minister of State for Education, Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba.

A five-man appellate court panel, led by Justice Inyang Okoro, dismissed the appeal after the former minister withdrew his case when informed that the case was filed outside the time prescribed by law, thus statute-barred.

Earlier, Nwajiuba had lost the case at the Federal High Court and the Court of Appeal in Abuja on the same grounds that his case lacked merit.

The former minister and a civil group, Rights for All International, had asked the Supreme Court to nullify or invalidate the processes that produced Tinubu and Atiku as presidential candidates of the APC and PDP, respectively.