An
Abuja-based lawyer, Nnamdi Nwokocha-Ahaiwe, has withdrawn a suit seeking the
disqualification of President Muhammadu Buhari from the 2015 Presidential Poll
for allegedly not possessing requisite education qualification, the News Agency
of Nigeria has reported.
Mr.
Nwokocha-Ahaaiwe had alleged that Mr. Buhari was not qualified to contest the
2015 presidential election as he did not sit for the Cambridge West African
School Certificate WASC) in 1961 as he claimed.
Mr.
Buhari was represented by over a dozen senior advocate of Nigeria, led by Wole
Olanipekun.
The
team also had Femi Falana, Lateef Fagbemi, Akin Olujinmi, Oluwarotimi
Akeredolu, Kola Awodein, Taiwo Osipitan, Charles Edosomwan, Emeka Ngige, Femi
Atoyebi, Funke Aboyade, H.O. Afolabi, and Muiz Banire.
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