The Supreme Court of Nigeria has dismissed a lawsuit brought by three All Progressives Congress (APC) members that tried to disqualify President-elect, Bola Tinubu because he was ineligible to run in the previous presidential election.
According to a ruling on March 29, the appellants, who were represented by Memuna Suleiman, lacked the locus standi necessary to have filed the action with the Federal High Court, the Nation reports.
When the case was called, a five-member Supreme Court panel stated that the appellants, who did not run for president of the APC in the primary, were unable to contest Tinubu’s nomination.
The appeal was dismissed by the court after the appellants’ solicitor requested to drop it in response to the court’s observation.
The court upheld the Court of Appeal’s judgement on February 17th.
Suleiman and two other people filed a lawsuit in the Federal High Court of Abuja with the following markings:
APC, Tinubu, the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF), the National Assembly, and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) were named as defendants in the FHC/ABJ/CS/1094/2022 lawsuit.
Suleiman and two other people filed a lawsuit in the Federal High Court of Abuja with the following markings:
They had asked the court, among other things, to rule that Tinubu had not complied.
