Judgment in the suit seeking to stop President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan from standing for the 2015 presidential election could not be delivered on Thursday as the presiding Judge, Justice Mudashiru Oniynagi, was absent.
Oniyangi fixed October 18, 2012 for judgment in the suit brought by a member of the Peoples Democratic Party, Cyracus Njoku, asking the court to pronounce Jonathan ineligible for the 2015 presidential race.
Oniyangi of an Abuja High Court was, however, absent without any reason given.
Njoku, a member of the PDP from Zuba Ward, Abuja Municipal Area Council, had urged the court to declare that Jonathan could not swear to the oath of office of the president three times in view of Section 137(1) (b) of the 1999 Constitution.
Njoku is contending that Jonathan’s tenure as president began on May 6, 2010 and that his two terms shall end on May 29, 2015, having taken his second oath of office on May 29, 2011.
He is equally seeking the declaration of the court that by virtue of Section 136 (1) (b) of the 1999 Constitution, no person could take the oath of allegiance and the oath of office prescribed in the Seventh Schedule of the Constitution more than twice.
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