Seven states recant, discontinue suit on nullification of presidential election

In a dramatic twist, seven states on Friday applied to Supreme Court to discontinue a suit they filed on Wednesday to nullify the result of February 25 presidential poll won by APC’s Bola Tinubu.

The states include Sokoto, Adamawa, Akwa-Ibom, Bayelsa, Delta, Taraba and Edo.

Chief Mike Ozekhome (SAN) leading a team of lawyers, applied to discontinue with the case which was communicated to the apex court via a notice of discontinuance.

The notice, dated March 3 reads: “Take notice that the plaintiffs doth, hereby, wholly discontinue this suit against the defendant herein.”

Newsmen reports that no reason was given by the plaintiffs to discontinue with the case.

The suit had the Attorney General of the Federation as the sole defendant.

The states, had in the suit, marked: SC/CV/354/2023 filed in the names of their Attorneys General, wanted the apex court to among others, direct “a wholistic review of all results so far announced by the Federal Government of Nigeria through the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) which were carried out other than through the manner prescribed by the provisions of the Electoral Act, 2022, the INEC Regulations and Guidelines for the Conduct of Elections, 2022; and the INEC Manual for Election Officials.”