The primary grouse of the petitioners was that they have been validly nominated for the 2019 normal election, however have been unlawfully excluded from the stated elections by INEC by delisting their names and get together emblem from the poll papers. The petitioners asserted that they may, on the trial lead proof and depend on the legal guidelines in assist of their petitions to ascertain that the shifting of the election from February 16 to 23 was with out the drive of regulation and powers to take action. One other grouse of the petitioners was that INEC positioned a false model of their registered get together emblem on the poll papers for elections and that price them the probabilities of realizing their political ambition within the 2019 normal election.
In the meantime, an ex-parte movement filed by the petitioners searching for to serve President Muhammadu Buhari with their petition and different processes is to be heard on the Courtroom of Enchantment in Abuja on Thursday, March 28.
The ex-parte movement filed by their counsel, Yusuf Ibrahim, is searching for an order of the court docket to m President Buhari by pasting their petition on the Aso Villa Presidential workplace, the Nationwide Secretariat of the APC and on the tribunal’s discover board. The ex-parte movement adopted an affidavit of non-service deposed to by one Abubakar Mohammed, Chief Bailiff of the Courtroom of Enchantment, the place he claimed that securities on the reception of Aso Villa denied him entry to enter and impact service on President Buhari on the grounds that there isn’t a directive from the president’s workplace to that impact.
