The Incorporated Trustees of Egalitarian Mission for Africa instituted the suit praying the court to declare that the former Vice President is not a Nigerian but a Cameroonian by citizenship.
The suit, which has Atiku, PDP, the Independent National Electoral Commission , the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice as well as the Attorney General of Adamawa state as defendants, is seeking an interpretation of Sections 25 & and 131 of the 1999 Constitution. “Whether by the combined interpretation of Sections 25 & and 131 of the Constitution and given the circumstances surrounding the birth of Atiku, he can be cleared by PDP and INEC to contest for office of the president.
In an affidavit deposed to by one Michael Okejimi, a legal practitioner in the law firm of Kayode Ajulo, who filed the suit on behalf of the plaintiff, averred that Atiku was born on November 25, 1946 and that, from Atiku’s own testimony that is gazetted and published in most national dailies in circulation, he is from Jada town in Adamawa and Jada used to be in Ganye Local Government Area in Adamawa.
Eyitayo Jegede , representing Atiku said in a preliminary objection to the suit that the plaintiff’s case was statute barred, having been brought 129 days after the act complained of, which borders on the nomination and eligibility of Atiku as a candidate of the PDP in the 2019 general election, while the primary election which the former Vice President emerged was conducted on the 6th of October, 2018, contrary to election 285 of the constitution.
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