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6.1.11. The Plaintiffs’ state that the 3rd Defendant Presidential Candidate Fund
Raising of N21.27 Billion violated the rights of the Plaintiffs of equality before the
law and to freely choose representative in a level playing field for all the presidential
candidates at the election in accordance with the provision of the law.
6.1.12. The Defendants deployed this unwholesome violation to the disadvantage
and detriment of the Plaintiffs as reports of vote buying and obscene television
adverts and bill boards of 3rd Defendant far exceeding N15 Billion worth is
unleashed to intimidate and manipulate the February 14, 2015 presidential election
in which the Plaintiffs are participants.
6.1.13. The law requires the 1st Defendant Member State, the 2nd, 5th and 6th
Defendants to investigate and inquire into the 3rd and 4th Defendants’ violation and
desecration of the laws and prosecute and convict them appropriately in accordance
with the laws.
6.1.14. The Defendants have conspired to violate all known laws of the land in their
quest to create unequal access to and standing of candidates before the in the
ensuring electoral process and contest of the scheduled presidential election in
February 14, 2015 to the Plaintiffs’ disadvantaged and eventual losses at the said
presidential election as scheduled.
6.1.15. The Plaintiffs have suffered irreparable and immeasurably as their supporters
and sponsors have been intimidated and scared off by the Defendants’ brazen
violations of the laws and rights of the Plaintiffs. The Defendants have in addition
deployed and appropriated State institutions and enlisted officers of government
agencies into the 3rd Defendant’s Presidential Campaign Committees.
6.1.16. The Defendants obligations to observe, protect and enforce the compliance
to the regional laws and protocol relating to the Plaintiffs human rights had been
relegated, assaulted, violated and stripped bare to the humiliation and detriment of
Plaintiffs right to participate on equal footing in the presidential election to enable
voters in Nigeria to freely choose representatives to participate in the Government
of Nigeria.