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The Action Alliance (AA) party Tuesday asked a Federal High Court in Abuja to stop the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) from including the name of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the ballot of the 2023 Presidential election.
The party equally asked the court for another order restraining the electoral umpire from accepting the name of Senator Bola Tinubu as candidate of the APC in the forthcoming presidential election.
The plaintiff in the Writ of Summon marked: FHC/ABJ/CS/954/2022, predicated its request on the claim that both the APC and its presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu, are not qualified to participate in the 2023 presidential election on alleged forgery committed by Tinubu in 1999.
The suit filed on behalf of the plaintiff by its lawyer, Mr Upkai Ukairo, claimed that Tinubu forged his University of Chicago certificate he submitted in 1999 in aid of his qualification for the 1999 governorship election in Lagos State, which was won by Tinubu.
The suit has INEC, APC and Senator Bola Tinubu as 1st, 2nd and 3rd defendants respectively.
In a 16 paragraph statement on oath deposed by one Kalu Agu, the plaintiff submitted that “the 3rd defendant is a person who is not qualified for election to the office of President of Nigeria on the grounds of alleged forgery…
