A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has fixed September 7 to hear a suit seeking the disqualification All Progressive Congress presidential candidate, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, from contesting the 2023 elections.
Four APC members are praying that the Court will declare Tinubu ineligible on the grounds that he
submitted false information to the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC.
In a 33-paragraph affidavit in support of the suit deposed to by one Ibiang Miko Ibiang, the plaintiffs averred that Tinubu falsely swore to an affidavit in 1999 in which he claimed to have attended St Paul Aroloya Children Home School, Ibadan -1958-64, and Government College, Ibadan -1965-68 and presented the same to INEC.
Ruling on an ex parte application, Justice Ahmed Mohammed granted an order for substituted service on Tinubu after the plaintiffs’ counsel, Goddy Uche, told the court that substituted service has become necessary because all attempts to serve the presidential candidate proved abortive.
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