{"id":22518,"date":"2019-05-09T18:39:13","date_gmt":"2019-05-09T18:39:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/?p=22518"},"modified":"2019-05-11T18:41:27","modified_gmt":"2019-05-11T18:41:27","slug":"nigeria-court-hears-suit-querying-atikus-citizenship-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/nigeria-court-hears-suit-querying-atikus-citizenship-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Court Hears Suit Querying Atiku&#8217;s Citizenship Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"first\">A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja will on Thursday open hearing into a suit before Justice Inyang Ekwo, questioning former vice president Atiku Abubakar\u2019s claim to being a citizen of Nigeria by birth.<\/p>\n<p>This is coming few weeks after the All Progressives Congress, APC urged the tribunal to dismiss PDP&#8217;s petition for incompetence, arguing that Section 131(a) of the Constitution stipulates that a person must be a citizen of Nigeria by birth to be qualified to contest for the office of the President.<\/p>\n<p>The suit pursues a proclamation to the effect that Atiku was not qualified to contest the 2019 presidential election as the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).<\/p>\n<p>According to Mr. Kayode Ajulo, the spokesperson who filed the suit on behalf of the plaintiff; incorporated Trustees of Egalitarian Mission for Africa, wants the court to disqualify Atiku over alleged circumstances surrounding his citizenship.<\/p>\n<p>The group wants the court to interpret the provision of Sections 25(1) &amp; (2) and 131(a) of the 1999 Constitution.<\/p>\n<p>Read further: <a href=\"http:\/\/saharareporters.com\/2019\/05\/09\/court-hears-suit-querying-atikus-citizenship-today\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/saharareporters.com\/2019\/05\/09\/court-hears-suit-querying-atikus-citizenship-today<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja will on Thursday open hearing into a suit before Justice Inyang Ekwo, questioning former vice president Atiku Abubakar\u2019s claim to being a citizen of Nigeria by birth. This is coming few weeks after the All Progressives Congress, APC urged the tribunal to dismiss PDP&#8217;s petition for incompetence, arguing [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","region-nigeria","type-news-articles","item-year-660","item-theme-nationality-of-politicians"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22518"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22521,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22518\/revisions\/22521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}