Court dismissed Nwaijuba’s lawsuit against Tinubu and Atiku’s disqualification

A lawsuit brought by Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba, a former minister of state for education, and the trustees of Rights for All International (RAI) against Bola Tinubu, the candidate for president of the All Progressives Congress (APC), and his Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) rival, was dismissed by the Federal High Court in Abuja.

The plaintiffs lacked the legal authority to launch the lawsuit, and thus Justice Inyang Ekwo refused jurisdiction when delivering the verdict on Thursday.

Justice Ekwo criticized the role of RAI, which claimed to be a non-government organization, in politically driven matters before dismissing the lawsuit and calling it incompetent.

The judge decided that RAI had broken a section of the Companies and Allied Matters Act (CAMA) and gone against public policy by getting involved in political disputes and, as a result, partisan politics.

Then, Justice Ekwo dissolved RAI and told the CAC to take control of the now-defunct group and handle it in a way that follows the law.

In the lawsuit, Nwajiuba and RAI attempted to annul the primaries that produced Tinubu and Atiku Abubakar as the APC and PDP candidates for the upcoming presidential election, respectively. They further requested that Tinubu be replaced with the former minister, who claimed to have taken part in the APC primary but received no votes.

Prior to that, he had left his position as minister once the Electoral Act was signed.