2015 election: Court Asked To Refer Jonathan’s Eligibility Suit To Court Of Appeal

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The plaintiffs in a suit challenging the eligibility of President Goodluck Jonathan to contest in the 2015 presidential election have requested for referral of central questions in the matter for determination to the Court of Appeal.

The request made on Monday stalled hearing in the suit before a federal court in Abuja.

Counsel to Olatoye Wahab and the other plaintiffs in the suit, Mr Abiodun Oworikoko, informed the court that the President and the Attorney General of the Federation were served with the application for referral last Friday and that they still had time to respond and sought for an adjournment on the suit.

Meanwhile, proceedings in the suit was nearly disrupted by a member of the President’s party, who told the court that he had filed another suit challenging the competence of the eligibility suits and the locus standi of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) members who instituted the suits .

Mr Nigel Ifeayi Nwajiobi, who claimed to be the national leader of the PDP forum for less privileged, contended that the suits filed by the plaintiffs were both aimed at attacking, undermining and frustrating President Jonathan’s presidential ambition in 2015.

The trial judge, Justice Ahmed Mohammed, however, refused to hear his suit on the ground that the case had not been assigned to his court and that there was no application by the PDP chieftain to be joined in the pending suits.