A Federal High Court (FHC), Abuja, on Friday, dismissed a suit filed by a group seeking the disqualification of Sen. Bola Tinubu, the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), from the 2023 general elections.
Justice Binta Nyako, in a judgment, held that the plaintiff, the Incorporated Trustees of Kingdom Human Rights Foundation International, lacked the locus standi (legal right) to institute the case.
“The issue of locus standi of the applicant is a threshold issue because anything conduct without locus will be a nullity and it will be set aside,” she said.
Justice Nyako held that the plaintiff, having not been a political party nor a member of APC, had no legal right to file the action.
The judge, who also decsribed the suit as “an abuse of court process,” condemned the plaintiff for filing multiple suits with similar reliefs.
She said that Justice Inyang Ekwo of a FHC had, on Dec….
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