The Supreme Court has dismissed an appeal filed by former Minister of State for Education, Prof. Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba, seeking to void the participation of Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the February 25 presidential election.
In a judgement on Thursday, a five-member of the apex court held that the appeal by Prof. Nwajiuba and a group, the Rights for All International (RAI), had become academic having been overtaken by events.
Justice John Okoro, who presided over the panel, dismissed the appeal after appellants’ lawyer applied to withdraw it.
The appellants had, among others, urged the Supreme Court to void the primaries from which Tinubu and Abubakar emerged as their parties’ candidates on grounds of alleged corruption.