{"id":183997,"date":"2022-04-30T07:47:47","date_gmt":"2022-04-30T06:47:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/?p=183997"},"modified":"2022-04-30T07:47:47","modified_gmt":"2022-04-30T06:47:47","slug":"2023-ozekhome-tackles-falana-says-jonathan-legally-qualified-to-contest-presidency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2022\/04\/30\/2023-ozekhome-tackles-falana-says-jonathan-legally-qualified-to-contest-presidency\/","title":{"rendered":"2023: Ozekhome tackles Falana, says Jonathan legally qualified to contest presidency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Legal practitoner and activist, Mike Ozekhome has stated that former President Goodluck Jonathan is &#8220;constitutionally&#8221; qualified to contest for president in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Recall that\u00a0Jonathan was Nigeria\u2019s vice-pesident between 2007 and 2010. He became the president in May 2010 following the death of President Umaru Musa Yar\u2019Adua and completed the latter\u2019s tenure.<\/p>\n<p>He won the 2011 presidential election, but lost his attempt to secure a second term in office in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>However, there have been\u00a0speculations that Jonathan may defect to the All Progressives Congress <a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2022\/04\/30\/angry-plateau-youths-attack-apc-female-senator-burn-several-vehicles\/\">(APC)<\/a> to contest in the 2023 presidential election, but he is yet to declare his interest in the presidency.<\/p>\n<p>Several support groups have also asked him to run for president.<\/p>\n<p>Reacting to the calls for Jonathan to contest the presidency, Femi Falana, a human rights advocate, said section\u00a0137(3) of the constitution disqualifies Jonathan from contesting.<\/p>\n<p>Falana said Jonathan would spend a cumulative period of nine years as president, if he contests and wins the 2023 presidential election, adding that a person is constitutionally allowed to spend two terms of eight years as president.<\/p>\n<p>Falana\u2019s comment has sparked varied legal reactions.<\/p>\n<p>Section 137(3) of the fourth alteration to the 1999 constitution reads: \u201cA person who was sworn in to complete the term for which another person was elected as president shall not be elected to such office for more than a single term\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Joining the fray, Ozekhome, in a legal opinion released on Friday, said it would be \u201cgrossly unfair\u201d to deny Jonathan the right to contest for the 2023 presidency when the county\u2019s extant laws and court decisions permit him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe truth of the matter is that the antagonists of Jonathan running in 2022, in their strange line of argument, are mainly relying on the above section 137(3),\u201d Ozekhome said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey have probably not adverted their minds to sections 141 of the Electoral Act, 2010, as amended, and section 285(13) of the same fourth alteration to the 1999 constitution, as amended, which they are relying on.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMore revealing is that these antagonists are probably not aware of an extant and subsisting court of appeal decision where Jonathan was frontallly confronted and challenged before the 2015 presidential election, on the same ground of being ineligible to contest the said 2015 election, having allegedly been elected for two previous terms of office.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe section 137(3) being relied upon by the antagonists was signed into law in 2018, three years after Jonathan had left office. Can he be caught in its web retrospectively?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is clear that those deliberately misinterpreting the clear position of the law may be baying for Jonathan\u2019s blood, possibly as a potential candidate who may subvert the chances of their preferred candidates.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI do not view issues from such a narrow ad homine prism and blurred binoculars. It will be grossly unfair, unconstitutional, unconscionable and inequitable to deny Jonathan of the right to contest the 2023 presidential election when our extant laws and appellate court decisions permit him to.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe question of whether Jonathan really needs to subject his glittering and internationally acclaimed reputation and credentials to the muddy waters of a fresh competition with persons, some of whom were his personal appointees as president, is another matter altogether.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOnly him, and not the present state of the laws in Nigeria, can answer that question and decide his own fate. But, as regards his eligibility to contest, Dr Goodluck Ebele Azikiwe Jonathan is pre-eminently constitutionally, morally and legally qualified to contest the 2023 presidential election.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Legal practitoner and activist, Mike Ozekhome has stated that former President Goodluck Jonathan is &#8220;constitutionally&#8221; qualified to contest for president in 2023. Recall that\u00a0Jonathan was Nigeria\u2019s vice-pesident between 2007 and 2010. He became the president in May 2010 following the death of President Umaru Musa Yar\u2019Adua and completed the latter\u2019s tenure. 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