A lawyer, Nnamdi Nwokocha-Ahaaiwe beat a retreat yesterday in the suit he filed before the Federal High Court, Abuja, challenging the veracity of the academic credentials of President Muhammadu Buhari.
Nwokocha-Ahaaiwe, had by the suit, sought to disqualify Buhari from the 2015 presidential elections on the grounds that he failed to exhibit his West African School Certificate (WASC) in the form he submitted to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).
Yesterday, Chikodi Okey Orji, representing the plaintiff, moved a motion for discontinuance of the case. He was silent on the reason for his decision to discontinue the case.
Following Orji’s application, Justice Adeniyi Ademola struck out the case.
By virtue of “Section 50 (2) of the Federal High Court (Civil Procedure Rules), this matter is hereby struck out,” the judge said.
Justice Ademola, on June 16, adjourned further proceedings in the case indefinitely following the appeal filed against his ruling by lawyers representing Buhari.
On June 15, Buhari appealed against a previous ruling of the court dismissing the President’s preliminary objection and held that proper service of processes was effected on the President.
It was the plaintiff’s main contention that Buhari was not qualified to run for President because he did not possess the minimum qualification to run for the office.
He alleged that Buhari did not sit for the Cambridge West African School Certificate WASC) in 1961.