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APC: S/Court dismisses Nwajiuba’s appeal

The Supreme Court has dismissed an appeal by a former Minister of State for Education, Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba, seeking to nullify the participation of Bola Tinubu…

The Supreme Court has dismissed an appeal by a former Minister of State for Education, Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba, seeking to nullify the participation of Bola Tinubu in the All Progressives Congress (APC) primary.

A five-member panel of justices led by Justice Inyang Okoro yesterday held that the appeal was filed outside the time required by law and therefore was statute barred.

Earlier, Nwajiuba’s lawyers, who had among them, Kingdom Okere Esq, withdrew the appeal on the advice of the panel which insisted that it was filed outside the time provided by law.

The Incorporated Trustees of Rights for All International brought the appeal alleging that the June 8, 2022, primary was marred by corruption and massive vote buying, insisting that the majority of the delegates were bought over with dollars.

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APC: S/Court dismisses Nwajiuba’s appeal

The NGO had at the Federal High Court in Abuja sought a declaration that the 3rd defendant (Tinubu) “who had previously sworn an affidavit in the INEC nomination form declaring that he lost his primary and secondary school documents and benefitted therefrom cannot in a later affidavit deny and abandon same facts deposed in the previous affidavit and thus falsely contradict his academic qualifications.”

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