Hearing into one of the suits challenging the eligibility of President Goodluck Jonathan to contest the 2015 presidential election before a federal high court in Abuja was stalled, following plaintiffs’ application that the central questions in the matter be referred to the Court of Appeal for determination.
Counsel for Olatoye Wahab and the other plaintiffs in the suit, Mr Abiodun Owonikoko, told 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 matter.
Meanwhile, proceedings in the suit was nearly disrupted by a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) who told the court that he had filed another suit challenging the competence of the eligibility suits and the locus standi of the PDP members who instituted the suits .
Mr Ifeayi Nwajiobi, who claims to be a human rights activist and national leader of the PDP’s National Less Privileged Forum in Nigeria, instituted a suit against Mr Mase Daphine Acho, Mr Sadeeq Umar Sarki, Murtala Abubakar, Olatoye Wahab and Adejumo Mansounri Ajagbe who are plaintiffs in the two pending suits challenging the president’s eligibility to contest the 2015 presidential election.
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