BREAKING: Fresh trouble for Tinubu as Abuja residents drag president-elect to court, lawyer speaks

• Troubles hang continued to compile against Bola Tinubu, the president-elect, ahead of his inauguration scheduled for Could well additionally just 29
• Some residents of the FCT hang filed a swimsuit, praying the federal high court docket in Abuja to end the inauguration of Tinubu over failure to precise 25% of votes in the federal capital
• Balogun Sofiyullahi, a criminal practitioner who shared the swimsuit file mutter that topic used to be already sooner than the tribunal and it used to be potentially the most straightforward court docket that might perchance perchance perchance think on pre-election issues

FCT, Abuja – Some residents of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) hang dragged Bola Tinubu, the president-elect, to the federal high court docket sitting in Abuja, asking the court docket to end his inauguration, which used to be scheduled for Could well additionally just 29.

In the doc of the motion shared by a criminal professional, Balogun Sofiyullahi, Esq., on his Twitter web page on Friday, Could well additionally just 12, the applicants want the court docket to end Tinubu from being sworn in as the subsequent Nigeria president over his failure to precise 25% of votes in the FCT.

One amongst the arguments of the opposition events on the continuing presidential election petition court docket used to be that Tinubu did no longer precise 25% of the votes in the FCT and, therefore, might perchance perchance perchance perchance no longer be sworn in as president.

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Prominent criminal practitioners hang shared a bunch of perspectives, including Femi Falana, who argued that the FCT did no longer hang a particular situation and that it will seemingly be handled as a disclose, as outlined in the Nigerian structure.

No topic the topic of the senior indicate, each and each Atiku Abubakar and Peter Obi of the Peoples Democratic Fetch together (PDP) and the Labour Fetch together hang argued that Tinubu cannot be sworn it due to he did no longer derive 25% of the votes in the FCT.

Most traditional about Bola Tinubu, APC, Abuja, 25%, Could well additionally just 29, Southeast

Sharing the doc on Friday after, Sofiyullahi acknowledged:

“Some Abuja residents hang approached the Federal Excessive Courtroom in a deliver to end the swearing-in of @officialABAT.

“Right here is on the root that he didn’t precise 25% in FCT, Abuja.

“Right here’s a topic that is sooner than the Tribunal & simplest it has jurisdiction over post-election issues.”

Witness the tweet here:

Presidential election tribunal: ‘Develop no longer accept bribe’, Primate Ayodele to judges

Legit.ng earlier reported that Primate Elijah Ayodele had told the judges of the presidential election petition court docket to contend with far off from passing judgments that will further disunite Nigeria.

The cleric, in a dispute by his media aide, maintained that the jurists have to contend with far off from any hang of money alternate for them to be ready to dangle self sustaining choices.

Ayodele spoke on the background of the 2023 presidential election that produced Bola Tinubu, the APC candidate, as the president-elect.

Supply: Legit.ng