A Federal High Court in Abuja on Thursday dismissed a certificate forgery suit instituted against the Kwara State Governor, Alhaji Abdulrahman Abdulrasaq, by the Peoples Democratic Party.
He held that the purported certificate forgery and perjury had been raised in another suit in 2019 by the PDP’s former governorship candidate, Rasaki Atunwa, and dismissed by Justice Bassey Ikpeme for being worthless.
The Justice upheld the preliminary objection to the suit filed on the governor’s behalf by a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Prince Lateef Fagbemi, and agreed with him that the PDP was a busy body and meddlesome interloper. Justice Ekwo held that the PDP lacked requisite locus standi to challenge the primary election that produced Abdulrasaq as the governorship candidate of the APC because it was not an aspirant in the primary election.
“Once a court is satisfied with the proceedings before it that they amount to abuse of process, the court has the right, in fact, duty to invoke its coercive powers to punish the party which is in abuse of its process. “Such power is often exercisable by a dismissal of the action which constituted the abuse. I therefore make an order dismissing this case for being an abuse of process of court,” the Justice pronounced maintaining that the suit had no life to sustain it or legs to stand upon having been instituted outside the period required by law.All rights reserved.
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