Late Abiola’s Wife Sues PDP Over Presidential Elections

Professor Akasoba Duke-Abiola, a founding
member of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP,
and aspirant for the 2015 presidential election,
has filed a suit before a Federal High Court in
Abuja, the country’s capital, against the party
for denying her an Expression of Interest Form
after she paid the mandatory sum for
acquisition of the form, Pm news reports.
Abiola, wife of late businessman and acclaimed
winner of the 12 June, 1993 presidential
election, Chief Moshood Olawale Abiola, said
she was denied of the form by the party after
paying N2 million and obtaining a receipt of
payment from the party’s headquarters in
Abuja.
In the suit with number FHC/ABJ/CS/836/14,
and in which she joined the Independent
National Electoral Commission, INEC, she is
seeking a perpetual injunction barring the PDP
from holding the presidential primary election.
She is also seeking the court to bar INEC from
recognising President Goodluck Jonathan as
the party’s candidate with an argument that
the party had failed to meet electoral
requirements as stipulated in its own
constitution as well as the country’s Electoral
Act.