A former Minister of Youth Affairs, Mr. Inuwa Abdulkadir, has asked 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.
The former minister, who has now defected to the All Progressives Congress (APC), is arguing that the action is unconstitutional and tantamount to a third term.
Abdulkadir, in the letter dated November 11, 2014, 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.
His 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”. .
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