Federal High Court of Nigeria

A, a court-ordered primary does not exempt a candidate or political party from other statutory requirements.

So Pan- uh, Pantami, like the case of Pantami, he actually won the PDP's rerun primary on, uh, the twentys- 29th of September 2026, after the Federal High Court ordered a fresh primary.

However, INEC subsequently omitted his name, citing the party's alleged failure to comply with membership requirements.

So if you check sections, uh, 77 subsection five and subsection seven of the Electoral Act 2026, it addressed membership registers and the consequences of non-compliance.

I think in the first place, uh, PDP and Pantami made a mistake, or even though there, you know, there is a new prohibition in the 2026 Electoral Act which says or specifies, uh, registration requirement under Section 75, subsection five to seven of the Electoral Act 2026, that any candidate that is going to be sponsored by the political party must be registered and must, must have his name submitted in the list of the party's members to the INEC on or before some specified time.

Uh, then unfortunately, uh, Pantami's name was not, uh, in the INEC register, uh, until the date, uh, was believed to have, uh, passed by some few days, I think.

But, uh, later this issue was taken to court, and the court, uh, decided that i-in a verdict delivered, I think, in the Federal High Court, that, uh, INEC has no powers to determine that.

So based on that, Pantami's name was included.

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That's why the federal high court in Abuja struck out the eight-count charge against him.

He will now be arraigned afresh after the director of public prosecutions, Rotimu Yedikbo, told the court that the alleged forged documents fall under the AFCT High Court's jurisdiction.

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The African Action Congress has dragged President Bola Tinubu, the National Assembly, and the Attorney General of the Federation for the Federal High Court in Abuja over the President's alleged failure to notify the National Assembly before embarking on a month-long vacation in Europe.

the party in an originating summons filed on monday asked the court to declare that tinabu breached section 1451 1999 constitution by leaving nigeria to the president of the senate and the speaker of the house of reps The suit listed Tinubu, the AJF, the Senate President, the Speaker of the House of Reps, and the National Assembly as defendants.

They claimed that Tinubu left Nigeria for Europe on August 30 and remained there as of the date the suit was filed.

So that was when he decided that we had to go to court.

So we went to court and the case was filed at the Federal High Court, Ikoi.

So we were there for like almost three, I think more than three years.

I was able to get judgment, ironically, September 30th of 2015 now.

He started writing to each quarters.

At the point, he went to Abuja himself to submit a petition to the IGP.

was no response until 2016 he decided that let's go through this ganeshi process yeah you understand so we went back to federal high courts we took all the banks almost all the banks should i say about eight different banks right all the banks said the police has zero funds with them there was no money in police accounts The reason being that Buhari has then introduced...

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