The All Progressives Congress Presidential Campaign Council on Thursday mocked a former Minister of State for Education, Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba, after a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja dismissed the suit he filed asking the court to void the primaries that produced APC presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, and his counterpart in the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar.
The ex-minister, who bought the APC presidential form for N100m, but polled only one vote at the June 8 primary, had accused Tinubu of bribery and inducement of delegates.
Nwajiuba has approached the court for redress after losing out at the APC Convention held in June this year.
After a series of adjournments, the case was thrown out by a Federal High Court in Abuja on Thursday.
In his ruling, Justice Inyang Ekwo declined jurisdiction because the plaintiffs lacked the locus standi to have filed the suit.
Reacting to the judgment, the spokesman of the APC PCC, Festus Keyamo, told The PUNCH that he knew from the outset that Nwajiuba’s case was dead on arrival.
“There is nothing to celebrate about it. We knew it was a useless case from the first day. So there is no mood change in our camp. There was no case there before,” he said.
In a separate telephone interview, the Director of Media and Publicity for Tinubu-Shettima Presidential Campaign Council, Bayo Onanuga, also toed the same path.
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