2019 election: Court decides on case seeking to disqualify Buhari, Atiku
Party , Atiku Abubakar through substituted means in a suit seeking to disqualify their participation in the last presidential election.
In the suit seeking the cancellation of their participation in the February 23, 2019 Presidential election, the plaintiff, Usman Ibrahim Alhaji, who contested the Presidential election along with Buhari and Atiku on the platform of his party, National Rescue Movement, is praying the Federal High Court to invoke Section 91 of the Electoral Act, 2010 to nullify the participation of Buhari and Atiku in the poll for allegedly violating the electoral laws.
Plaintiff claimed that by spending more than one billion naira each, Buhari and Atiku have violated the electoral law and are liable to be removed as contestants in the election. The counsel then moved an ex-parte motion in which he prayed Justice Mohammed for an order of substituted service on the two major defendants
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