Campaign Funding: NRM Presidential Candidate Drags Buhari, Atiku To Court.
Updated March 5, 2019The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has ordered service of court processes through substituted means on the candidates of the All Progressives Congress and Peoples Democratic Party in the just-concluded Presidential election, Muhammadu Buhari and the Atiku Abubakar in the case of alleged infraction of the Electoral Act.
Mr Ibrahim wants the court to nullify the participation of both candidates in the February 23, 2019 ,presidential poll, because, according to him, they spent more than provided for by the Electoral Act during their campaigns. He said, “We want the court to make an interpretation of section 91, sub-section 2 of the Electoral Act.
He claimed that by spending more than one billion naira each, both the APC and PDP candidates had violated the electoral law and were liable to be removed as contestants in the election.
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