Names of supreme court Justices that will decide Tinubu’s fate tomorrow

The identities of Supreme Court Justices that will rule on allegations of perjury filed against president-elect, Bola Tinubu by concerned Nigerians to determine whether the APC flag bearer should be Sworn-in or not have been unveiled.

The justices will also take a decision on double nomination of Tinubu’s running mate, Senator Kashim Shettima.

Recall that justice Omotosho on Tuesday granted an order of substituted service on Tinubu after listening to the motion for interim injunction to stop Tinubu from being sworn-in as president of Flfederal republic of Nigeria.

At the hearing, the Court requested that Plaintiffs’ counsel address the Court on Locus Standi of the Plaintiffs’and Jurisdiction which the Plaintiffs’ Counsel did.

The Court eventually adjourned the Matter to Friday for hearing and ordered that Hearing Notices and all Processes be served on the Defendants with immediate effect.

News Band reports that Concerned Nigerians had in a motion ex-parte filed last week alongside the suit marked FHC/ABJ/C5/567/2023 alleged that Tinubu, who was declared president-elect by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), lied on oath about his possession of a Guinean Passport. Tinubu was also accused of lying about his educational qualifications and uttering forged educational credentials.

The concerned Nigerians who filed the suit are Praise Ilemona Isaiah, Pastor Paul Isaac Audu and Dr Anongu Moses.

The defendants are the President of Federal Republic of Nigeria, Bola Tinubu, All Progressives Congress, Attorney-General of the Federation, Director-General of the Department of State Service, Inspector General of Police, and Independent National Electoral Commission.

The concerned Nigerians are seeking an order of the court to nullify Tinubu’s candidacy in the February 25 presidential election.

They are also seeking an order restraining president of the federal republic of Nigeria from swearing-in Tinubu.

The litigants are making the following demands:

“A DECLARATION that the deliberate, wilful and false information deposed to by the 2nd defendant in FORM EC9 of the 7th defendant wherein he stated that he is a not a citizen of another country apart from Nigeria, contrary to the fact that he is also a citizen of The Republic of Guinea, is a criminal offense capable of preventing the 2nd defendant from being sworn in as the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

“AN ORDER of this Honourable Court nullifying the candidacy of the 2nd defendant as fielded by the 3rd defendant as its political party flag bearer for the presidential election of the 25th of February 2023.

“AN ORDER of this Honourable Court restraining the 1st defendant from allowing the swearing in of the 2nd defendant as President, Federal Republic of Nigeria, and directing the 1st defendant to ensure by all the powers within his disposal that the 2nd defendant is not sworn in, into the office of the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria for wilfully, deceptively and deliberately misleading the 7th defendant and telling lies on oath.

“AN ORDER of this Honourable Court directing the 4th, 5th and 6th defendants to ensure that the 2nd defendant is detained, and prevented from being sworn in as the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, pending the determination of the Presidential election Petition before the Court of Appeal to determine the rightful winner of the 25th February, 2023 election conducted by the 7th defendant.

“AN ORDER of this Honourable Court directing the 3rd defendant to dismiss the 2nd defendant from the party for deliberately telling lies and falsely stating .in the form EC9 of the 7th defendant that he is only a Nigerian citizen contrary to the prevailing and available facts that he possesses citizenship of the Republic of Guinea.

“AN ORDER of this Honourable Court to the 7th defendant to nullify and disqualify the candidacy of the 2nd defendant for wilfully and knowingly telling lies on oath, to the 7th defendant in the form EC9 of the 7th defendant which is against the sacrosanct condition precedent for being allowed as a candidate to contest the Presidential election of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

“AN ORDER of this Honourable Court directing the 2nd defendant to stop holding out himself as the President-elect of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, since he was ineligible and his nomination as the Presidential Candidate of the 3rd defendant a nullity owing to the deliberate false declaration, he made in the form EC9 of the 7th defendant before the Presidential election which held on the 25th of February 2023.

“AN ORDER of this honourable court restraining and barring the 2nd defendant from contesting any other election in the Federal Republic of Nigeria for the next 10 years for deliberately telling lies and give false information on oath, in the form EC9 of the 7th defendant.

Meanwhile, the justices who will decide the fate of the former Lagos State governor on the 26 of May 2023 include, Justice Iyang Okoro, Justice Amina Augie, Justice Helen Ogunwumiju, Justice Adamu Jauro and Justice Emmanuel Agim.

Justice Iyang Okoro who is the lead Justice and Amina Adamu Augie were among the justices that sacked David Lyon of Bayelsa state on the 13th of February 2020 over his deputy submitting fraudulent information to the Independent National Electoral Commission.

The same Amina Adamu Augie of the Supreme Court in a lead judgment in 2019 upheld the decision of the Court of Appeal and voided the candidature of Uche Nwosu as governorship flagbearer of the Action Alliance (AA) in the 2019 gubernatorial general elections in Imo over double nominations.