A Federal High Court, Abuja, on Friday, dismissed a suit filed by three applicants, seeking to stop the swearing-in of Bola Tinubu as the fifth Nigeria’s
Justice James Omotosho, in a ruling, said the applicants, who were neither candidates nor members of a political party in the election that produced Tinubu as president-elect, lacked the locus standi to institute the matter.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that three applicants; Praise Ilemona Isaiah, Pastor Paul Isaac Audu and Dr Anongu Moses had filed the suit marked: FHC/ABJ/CS/657/2023. Others are the Inspector-General of Police and the Independent National Electoral Commission as 1st to 7th defendants respectively.
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