Kwara Gov, Abdulrasaq asks Abuja court to dismiss PDP’s certificate forgery suit against him

By Adeleye Kunle

The Kwara State Governor, Abdulrahman Abdulrasaq, has asked a Federal High Court in Abuja to dismiss a certificate forgery suit instituted against him by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for want of merit and jurisdiction.

The governor told the court that the suit was baseless and unwarranted as it constituted a gross abuse of court process.

In a preliminary objection to the suit filed on his behalf by a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Prince Lateef Olasunkanmi Fagbemi, Governor Abdulrasaq asked Justice Inyang Edem Ekwo to throw away the suit.

He claimed that the purported certificate forgery and perjury had been raised in another suit in 2019 by PDP’S former governorship candidate, Rasaki Atunwa, adjudicated upon and dismissed by Justice Bassey Effiong Ikpeme for being worthless and unmeritorious.

Among others, Abdulrasaq argued that PDP lacked requisite locus standi to challenge the primary election that produced him as the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) because its not a member of the party.

Specifically, he labeled PDP as a busy body and meddlesome interloper because it has no right whatsoever to dabble into the internal affairs of the APC.

He averred that none of the APC governorship aspirants who participated in the primary election and who have legal rights to question anything relating to the primary election has ever been in court for whatever reason