The Supreme Court on Thursday dismissed a suit filed by a former Minister of State for Education, Emeka Nwajuba, for the disqualification of the presidential candidates of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
A five-member panel of the court unanimously dismissed the suit after Mr Nwajiuba’s legal team withdrew the suit against Bola Tinubu of the APC and Atiku Abubakar of the PDP at Thursday’s proceedings.
The former minister had lost the case at both the Federal High Court and the Court of Appeal as both courts concurrently ruled that it was statute-barred.
Mr Nwajiuba and 12 others contested and lost the APC presidential primary election to Mr Tinubu in June last year.
The former minister, who was absent from the APC’s primary election in June 2022, polled only one vote.
In July 2022, he along with a group, Rights for All International, filed a suit for the disqualification of both Mr Tinubu and Atiku as the presidential…
