The Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja will today, Friday deliver judgment in a suit filed against President Muhammadu Buhari, challenging his qualification for the 2019 presidential election.
Dailypost reports that a three-member panel of the Court of Appeal presided over by Justice Atinuke Akomolafe-Wilson, had on Monday, July 8, reserved judgment in the suit after listening to the argument canvassed by counsel to parties in the matter. The court earlier held that date for its judgment would be communicated to parties
Recall that Kalu Kalu, Labaran Ismail, and Hassy El-Kuris had approached the court seeking to nullify and set aside the Judgment of the Federal High Court which had refused to entertain their petition. The Federal Court had declined to hear the suit instituted to challenge the educational qualification of President Buhari before the conduct of the 2019 general election, claiming that the suit was not filed within the time allowed by law and therefore sustained the preliminary objection raised by Buhari at the hearing.
The petitioners had claimed that President Buhari failed to attach to his INEC presidential form CF001 the requisite certificates to make him eligible for the election. They are seeking the nullification of Buhari’s participation in the February 23 presidential election because he was not educational qualified for the poll at the time he did.
