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Former President Goodluck Jonathan on Friday challenged a lawsuit seeking to bar him from the 2027 presidential election.
A lawyer, Johnmary Jideobi, had approached the Federal High Court, Abuja, to stop Jonathan from vying for the country’s president in 2027 after taking the oath of office twice in the past.
Jonathan, in a preliminary objection filed by his lawyer, Chief Chris Uche (SAN), to challenge Jideobi’s originating summons, prayed Justice Peter Lifu to dismiss the suit for want of jurisdiction.
According to the ex-President, the suit is purely speculative, founded on conjecture, premature and predicated on media speculation, as there was no nomination, no election and no cause of action.
“The court lacks jurisdiction to entertain hypothetical constitutional questions.
“The suit constitutes a gross abuse of court process, aimed at obtaining a pre-emptive political judgment.
“Cosmetic joinder of 2nd and 3rd D
defendants is a mere jurisdictional artifice,” he said.
Jonathan submitted that the issues raised had already been judicially settled by a subsisting judgment of the Federal High Court, Yenagoa.
The former President, therefore, sought an order striking out the suit for want of jurisdiction and as constituting a gross abuse of court process.
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