A Federal High Court Abuja, will on June 27 hear a suit challenging the campaign funding of President Muhammadu Buhari, and the Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Atiku Abubakar in their 2019 campaigns.
The suit, filed by the presidential candidate of the National Rescue Movement, NRM, Usman Alhaji, seeks an order of the court nullifying the participation of Buhari and Atiku in the Feb. 23 Presidential poll.
Alhaji wants the court to disqualify the two because they spent above the amount provided for by the Electoral Act in their campaigns.
Specifically, he is praying the court to set aside the participation of Buhari and Atiku on the grounds that they spent more than N1 billion each, as campaign expenses.
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Also listed as defendants in the suit are: the All Progressives Congress, APC, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC..
The suit filed by Mr. Ezekiel Ofou, wants the court to invoke Section 91(2) of the Electoral Act, 2010 to nullify the participation of Buhari and Atiku in the poll for allegedly violating the electoral laws.
When the matter was called on Tuesday, Buhari and the APC were represented by counsel, but there was no legal representation for Atiku, the PDP and INEC.
Ofou told the court that the matter had been fixed for further hearing and that all parties had been duly served with relevant processes.
He prayed the court to consider the matter as mentioned and fix a date for hearing since there had been several adjournments for mentioning.
As there was no objection from Buhari’s counsel, Justice Ahmed Mohammed, adjourned the matter until June 27, for hearing directing that hearing notices be served on the defendants who were absent in court.
