Tax Payers Sue Buhari Over Qualification Filled in INEC Form CF001

  • Electorates sue President Buhari on four grounds of ineligibility for the office of the president.
  • They want the court to determine whether the office of the AGF is competent to file processes in defence.

Some Electorates have approached the Court of Appeal in Abuja to invoke its original jurisdiction to determine whether President Muhammadu Buhari supplied false information about his educational qualification and certificates, in the Form CF001 submitted to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), before the 2019 presidential elections.

The litigants in an appeal marked CA/A/436/20 urged the court urged to determine whether the office of the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice, is competent to file processes in defence of the allegation that President Buhari lied on oath about his qualifications.

Kalu Agu, Labaran Ismail and Hassy El-Kuris, who identified themselves as electorate and taxpayers in challenging the dismissal of a suit they filed against President Buhari, before the February 23 presidential election, prayed that the court to determine; “whether having regard to the information in the affidavit contained in the 1st defendant’s INEC FORM CF001 regarding his educational qualifications/certificates, the defendant has submitted false information to the 3rd defendant.

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Defendants, in the case are  President Buhari, the All Progressives Congress (APC) and INEC.

They also want the court to determine whether from the facts and exhibits submitted, if President Buhari is disqualified from running for the office of President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria in the 2019 General Elections.

“Whether the 1st defendant having submitted false information to the 3rd defendant, the 2nd defendant can validly present the 1st defendant as its candidate for the office of President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria for the 2019 General Elections.

“Whether the 3rd defendant can validly receive, accept or act upon the false information in the affidavit and documents submitted by the 1st as the candidate of the 2nd defendant for the office of President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria for the 2019 General Elections.

“Whether the 3rd defendant ought to have rejected the said false information and documents submitted by the 2nd defendant for the 1st defendant.”

They prayed the court to hold that President Buhari was ineligible to contest the presidential election, upon determination of the questions.

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