2023 Election: CBN Governor Sues INEC Over Alleged Plan To Disqualify Him From Primaries

The Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele, has filed a suit before a Federal High Court in Abuja over the alleged plan to disqualify him from the 2023 presidential primaries slated for the end of this month.

Reports gathered that, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has given political parties a deadline of June 3 to submit their candidates for the 2023 elections.

Meanwhile, Lawyers and critics had argued that Emefiele was unfit to run going by Section 84 (12) of the Electoral Act. The section states that no political appointee at any level shall be a voting delegate or be voted for at the Convention or Congress of any political party for the purpose of the nomination of candidates for any election.

But Emefiele in a document, through his lawyer, Mike Ozekhome, argued that he is more or less a civil servant and by provision of the constitution, he is expected to resign a month before the February 25, 2023, presidential election.

He according to report, also contended that a Federal High Court in Umuahia, Abia State, had  nullified that section of the Electoral Act. INEC and the Office of the Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF) were joined in the suit.

Speaking further on the 2023 Presidency, Emefiele said God would decide for him “in the next few days”.

Meanwhile, the Abuja High Court has in a recent report refused the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele’s request to restrain the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), and the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) Abubakar Malami preventing him from his Presidential Ambition.

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