Former Minister of Youth Affairs,
Mr. Inuwa Abdulkadir, has urged the Attorney General of the Federation
(AGF) and Minister of Justice, Mr. Mohammed Adoke (SAN) to stop
President Goodluck Jonathan from contesting the 2015 presidency on the
ground that such an action is unconstitutional and tantamount to a third
term.
Abdulkadir, who was appointed a minister by Jonathan,
stated this in a letter he addressed to the AGF. The letter was dated November 11, 2014.
The
former minister, who has now defected to the All Progressives Congress
(APC), urged Adoke to take a judicial notice of the fact that Jonathan’s
declaration for 2015 presidency indicated that the president would
spend more than eight years. He also cited Sections 135 (ii) and (2) (b)
of the 1999 constitution, as amended, to buttress his point.
Abdulkadir’s
letter reads in part, “Firstly, without at all intending to be
patronizing, your timely intervention would afford the Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP) opportunity to field a qualified person as its
candidate for the office of the President. Secondly, to avoid the
enormous waste of fast dwindling national resources in conducting a
presidential election with an unqualified person and the acrimony and
tensions that results of such elections have been known to breed in
Nigeria.
“Thirdly, your intervention would save the courts from
the unwarranted trouble of having to be repeating itself on the same
issues as were decided in the case of Marwa supra.”
source:Leadership News
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