PM News
Abuja
March 1, 2013
An Abuja High Court presided by Justice Mudashiru Oniyangi, on Friday held that President Goodluck Jonathan is eligible to contest the forthcoming 2015 Presidential election if he so desires.
The court held that Jonathan’s assumption of the office of the President after the demise of the late former President Umaru Yar’Adua was in line with what the National Assembly aptly described as doctrine of necessity and not as a result of emerging winner in any bye election conducted after the death of the late former President.
“After the death of Umaru Yar’Adua, there was no election or bye election. President Jonathan was merely asked to assume the office of the President in line with Doctrine of necessity. He was not elected as the President but was made to assume office by virtue of Yar’Adua’s death. Having exhausted the late President’s tenure, he sought for his party’s ticket and ran for the office of the President successfully in 2011 general election. He is therefore currently serving his first tenure of office and if he so wishes, he is eligible to further seek his party’s ticket through the party’s primary election and to run for office in 2015” the judge declared.
Justice Oniyangi clearly re affirmed that his judgment does not in any way make President Jonathan an automatic candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and warned that his decision should not be misconstrued to mean that Jonathan has become an automatic candidate of the party for the 2015 Presidential election.
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