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An Abuja Court of Appeal, yesterday, reserved ruling on the suit seeking to disqualify President Goodluck Jonathan from running in the 2015 presidential election, Vanguard is reporting.
A three-man panel of Justices of the appellate court led by Justice Abubakar Yahaya adjourned the matter on a day the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, through its National Legal Adviser, Mr. Victor Kwon, sought the dismissal of the suit which it said was devoid of merit.
The PDP, maintained that there is nothing in the 1999 constitution forbidding President Jonathan from seeking for a re-election next year, even as it also urged the appellate court to disregard an application by one of its aggrieved presidential aspirants from Adamawa State, Dr. Umar Ardo, to be joined in the matter as an interested party.
Ardo had through his lawyer, Dr. A. Amuda Kannike, begged the court to join him in the substantive appeal which was lodged against Jonathan by a PDP member, Mr. Cyriacus Njoku, challenging the verdict of Justice Mudashiru Oniyangi of an Abuja High Court which had on March 1, 2013, declared the President legally fit to vie for re-election.
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Source: #Vanguard
A three-man panel of Justices of the appellate court led by Justice Abubakar Yahaya adjourned the matter on a day the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, through its National Legal Adviser, Mr. Victor Kwon, sought the dismissal of the suit which it said was devoid of merit.
The PDP, maintained that there is nothing in the 1999 constitution forbidding President Jonathan from seeking for a re-election next year, even as it also urged the appellate court to disregard an application by one of its aggrieved presidential aspirants from Adamawa State, Dr. Umar Ardo, to be joined in the matter as an interested party.
Ardo had through his lawyer, Dr. A. Amuda Kannike, begged the court to join him in the substantive appeal which was lodged against Jonathan by a PDP member, Mr. Cyriacus Njoku, challenging the verdict of Justice Mudashiru Oniyangi of an Abuja High Court which had on March 1, 2013, declared the President legally fit to vie for re-election.
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Source: #Vanguard
