Court okays hearing on suit seeking to void Buhari’s election, disqualify Atiku vanguardngr.com vanguardnews
Justice Ahmed Mohammed ordered substituted service of the suit on Buhari, through the All Progressives Congress, APC.
Specifically, the Plaintiff, alleged that contrary to provisions of the Electoral Act, President Buhari, expended more than one billion naira during his campaign for re-election. The plaintiff is among other reliefs, seeking for, “A declaration that the 1st and 3rd Defendants , have brazenly and flagrantly violated the provisions of section 91 of the Electoral Act 2010 , having exceeded the maximum legally allowable N1billion election expenditure for presidential candidates, taking into cognizance, the excessive, profligate and continuous extravagant presidential campaign of the 1st and 3rd Defendants since their emergence as presidential candidates of their respective...
“A declaration that branded items such as bags of fertilizers, bags of rice, distributed to electorates at campaign rallies by the 1st and 3rd Defendants, amount to inducement of electorates in exchange for their votes, amount to fraud covered within section 124 and section 130 of the Electoral Act”.
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