by Anike Jacobs
A legal practitioner, Chukwunweike Okafor, has sued the All Progressives Congress presidential candidate, Maj.-Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), for lacking the educational qualification to stand for the February 14 presidential election.
He is contending that Buhari’s form CF001 with the INEC, wherein he stated that he obtained the minimum educational qualification of West African Senior School Certificate could not be valid as the said certificate was allegedly false or not genuine.
Okafor who approached the Federal High Court in Abuja on Monday and tendered the application therefore asked the court to declare that “the information contained in Buhari’s affidavit dated November 24, 2014, stating that the Secretary of the Military Board was in custody of his WASSC was false and thereby disqualified him from contesting the 2015 general elections.”
He further asked the court to “compel INEC to withdraw, remove and/or delete the names of the 1st and 2nd defendants from the list of persons or political parties eligible to contest for the Office of the President of Nigeria in the 2015 general elections.”
The suit FHC/ABJ/CS/01/2015 which has Buhari, APC and the Independent National Electoral Commission as the first, second and third defendants respectively, was filed pursuant to Section 131 of the Constitution, which prescribes a minimum qualification for nomination to participate in the presidential election and Section 31 of the Electoral Act that requires all presidential candidates to depose to an affidavit that they have satisfied and complied with the constitutional requirements to be President of Nigeria.
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