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Nigerian High Court Fixes September 7 To Hear Certificate Forgery Suit Against APC Presidential Candidate, Tinubu

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The suit seeks to disqualify Tinubu from running in the 2023 general elections following allegations that he presented a forged certificate to the Independent National Electoral Commission. 

The Federal High Court in Abuja has set a date for the hearing of a legal suit filed against Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the presidential candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC.  

 

 

The suit seeks to disqualify Tinubu from running in the 2023 general elections following allegations that he presented a forged certificate to the Independent National Electoral Commission. 

 

The plaintiffs are four APC party leaders. 

 

The court has scheduled a hearing for September 7, 2022. 

 

Goddy Uche, counsel for the plaintiff, told the court that substituted service was required because all attempts to serve the presidential candidate had failed because he could not be reached. 

 

The Vacation Judge, Justice Mohammed, ordered in a brief ruling that the Court process should be served on the APC National Secretariat and that such service is deemed to have been properly served on Bola Tinubu. 

 

In the suit, the plaintiffs sought to determine whether, having regard to the provisions of sections 1 (3); 4(1) and 2; 14(1), (2)(a), and (c) and 42(1)(a) and (b) of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 (as amended), the provision of section 29(5) of the Electoral Act, 2022 as enacted by the 4th Defendant, which modified the provision of section 31(5) of the Electoral Act,2010 (as amended). 

 

Whether, in light of the Supreme Court's decision in Modibbo vs Usman (2020) 3 NWLR(PT.1712)470 and the provision of section 137(1)(j), the 3rd Defendant did not present a forged certificate to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) the 1st Defendant and was thus disqualified from participating in the upcoming 2023 Presidential General Election. 

 

 

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