Some aggrieved members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) have asked a federal high court in Abuja to disqualify Bola Tinubu, a former Lagos governor, from the ruling party’s presidential primary.
The APC members, under the Gaskiya youth movement of the ruling party, made the plea in a suit marked FHC/ABJ/CS/774/2022, filed before the court on Thursday.
The plaintiffs listed are Umar Iliyasu, Suleiman Baba and Abubakar Adamu who sued for themselves and on behalf of the Gaskiya group.
They asked the court to determine whether Tinubu can participate in the APC primaries or that of any other political party, given his “questionable educational background and date of birth”.
They are also seeking a “declaration that given the questionable educational background and date of birth of the second defendant (Tinubu) among other questionable issues, the first defendant (APC) cannot allow and/or permit the participation of the second defendant in the primary election for the office of the president”.
The group also wants the court to declare that Tinubu “cannot participate by presenting himself in any primary elections with any political party in Nigeria to be nominated as a presidential aspirant for the 2023 general election scheduled to take place in June 2022″.
Also sought by the plaintiffs is “an order of this honourable court disqualifying the second defendant from contesting in the primary elections on the platform of the first defendant scheduled for 7th June 2022 or any other day as may be fixed by the first defendant having not met the statutory requirements”.
