The Action Alliance, (AA) party has approached the Federal High Court in Abuja, accusing the Independent National Electoral Commission, ( INEC), the All Progressives Congress, (APC), the presidential candidate of the APC, Bola Tinubu and his vice, Kashim Shettima, over alleged double nomination.
The party in a sister case pending before the Abuja Division of the Federal High Court is seeking the disqualification of the APC from the 2023 presidential polls, over an alleged act of perjury on the part of its presidential candidate, Tinubu.
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In the fresh suit instituted on July 28, the plaintiff is seeking the disqualification of the ruling party, because it has nominated a candidate for more than one constituency, in the 2023 General Elections.
The act, according to the AA, in the fresh suit, contravened Section 35 of the Constitution and the Electoral Act, 2022.
It is specifically seeking, a declaration that the nomination of Tinubu, Shettima as Candidate is void, arising from the express provision of Section 35 of the 1999 Constitution and the Electoral Act, 2022, in that there is a double nomination in more than one constituency for the 2023 elections.
The party, therefore, wants a perpetual injunction, restraining the defendants from holding out themselves as Presidential and Vice Presidential Candidates, contesting the 2023 Presidential Election, on the platform of the 2nd defendant.
Plaintiff also sought another order of perpetual injunction, restraining INEC from listing the names of Tinubu and Shettima, as Presidential and Vice Presidential Candidates, in the final list of candidates in the said election, and restraining INEC from placing APC on the ballot, for the said election.
No date has been fixed for hearing of the suit.
(Editor: Ifeanyi Mark)
