I CAN RULE BEYOND EIGHT YEARS – JONATHAN
President
Goodluck Jonathan yesterday told an Abuja High Court hearing a suit against his
alleged 2015 re-election bid that his stay in office could legally go beyond
eight years under certain conditions.
Jonathan was responding in a suit asking the court to
declare him ineligible to run for re-election because that would extend his
tenure beyond the maximum eight years provided by the constitution, given that
he took over as President in May 2010 after the death of then-President
Yar’Adua.
The case was filed by Peoples Democratic Party
presidential aspirant, Mr Cyriacus Njoku, on March 20 seeking the determination
of section 135 (2) and 137 (1) of the Constitution which limit presidential
tenure to maximum of two terms of four years each.
Njoku is asking the court to determine whether in
spite of these provisions President Jonathan can seek re-election and take a
third oath of office having already taken oaths twice, first on May 6, 2010
after Yar’Adua’s death and then on May 29, 2011 after the general elections.
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