Outgoing Chief Judge of the Federal High Court, Ibrahim Auta, has revealed that the judiciary resisted attempts to stop President Muhammadu Buhari from contesting in the 2015 elections.
Auta said this while speaking at a special court session to usher in the 2017/2018 legal year, in Abuja on Tuesday.
According to him, the court insisted that candidates be allowed to test their popularity at the polls.
“Despite all pressures to stop certain members of the National Assembly as a result of their abandonment of the party that brought them into power, the court insisted that every candidate must be allowed to test his/her popularity,” he said.
“Secondly, the attempt to stop the president from contesting was rejected by this court.
“This is because, we in the federal high court preferred a level playing ground to all candidates.
“It is this option and insistence of this court that has kept the country together during and after the election. Nigeria owes the judiciary the debt of gratitude for the unity of the nation,” he said.
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