The Federal Supreme Court in Abuja dismissed a lawsuit filed by former state education minister Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba and the incorporated trustees of Rights for all International (RAI) against All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate Bola Tinubu and the its counterpart in the People’s Democratic Party (PDP).
Judge Inyang Ekwo issued a ruling on Thursday declaring incompetence on the basis that the plaintiffs did not have the legal right to sue.
Judge Ekwo, who also called the case incompetent and then dismissed it, condemned the involvement of RAI, which claimed to be a non-governmental organisation, in politically motivated cases.
The Judge held that, by its involvement in politically motivated cases and by extension, partisan politics, RAI went outside the objectives for which it was registered under part of the Companies and Allied Matters Act (CAMA) by the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) and taken steps inimical to public policy.
Justice Ekwo proceeded to dissolve RAI and ordered the CAC to take over the dissolved group and deal with it in accordance with the provisions of the law.
In the suit, Nwajiuba and RAI had sought, among others, to void the primaries that produced Tinubu and Atiku Abubakar as candidates of the APC and PDP for the next presidential election. They also prayed the court to replace Tinubu with the ex-minister who said he participated in APC’s primary but scored no vote.
He had before then resigned as minister following the signing of the Electoral Act.