A Federal High Court has dismissed two suits seeking the disqualification of Muhammadu Buhari from the March 28 presidential election.
Justice Adeniyi Ademola of Federal High Court, Abuja, struck out the two suits Wednesday.
There has been controversy over the academic qualification of Mr. Buhari for the election which he eventually won.
The Senate on Wednesday asked the Federal Government to sue South Africa’s Zulu King, Goodwill Zwelithini, at the International Criminal Court for the role he allegedly played in instigating the recent attacks on foreigners in the former apartheid enclave.
The Zulu King was said to have incited his people by telling them that the foreigners in their midst had outlived their welcome, accusing the foreign nationals of denying South Africans the jobs the hosts would have been employed for.
The Federal Government has assured Nigerians that President Goodluck Jonathan will formally handover power to the President-elect, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) on May 29
Minister of Information, Senator Patricia Akwashiki, who disclosed the information, had last week said the the President would hand over at a dinner on May 28 so that the administration can reserve May 29 for the incoming government.
Governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers State, Dr. Dakuku Adol Peterside, has expressed the hope that the State Election Petitions Tribunal sitting in Abuja will reverse the outcome of the April 11, 2015 governorship election, which saw the emergence of Chief Ezebunwo Nyesom Wike of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as the governor-elect.
Peterside, in a statement issued on his behalf by his campaign outfit, the Greater Together Campaign Organization (GTCO) in Port Harcourt yesterday, said he concurred with the prayer of Wike, that in the case of the governorship election in the state, God would complete what He had begun.
The Senator-elect of Ogun East Senatorial District, Buruji Kashamu, has expressed shock at Bola Tinubu’s “unwarranted attacks” against his person.
Mr. Kashamu, in a statement Tuesday, said Mr. Tinubu’s reaction to his innocuous congratulatory message to him is “unbecoming of someone of his stature and calibre.”
“First, I must say that I doubt if the statement was approved by him,” said Mr. Kashamu, a chieftain of the Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP.
