16 - 6.7.5. The Plaintiffs maintain that the Presidential Fund Raising Dinner of the 3 rd Defendant was covered live by television and reporters of print and electronic media. 6.7.6. That contrary to the 4th Defendant averment in Paragraph 3 of the Statement of Defense, the 5th Defendant was forced by the 3rd Defendant to postpone the scheduled February 14, 2014 presidential election to 28th March, 2015 using his appointed aides, the National Security Adviser and the Chief of Defense Staff (security chiefs) who blackmailed the 5th Defendant of their inability to guarantee security for the election when even international election observers and preparation for elections on the part of other contestants including the Plaintiffs were concluded. The forced postponement of the February 14, 2014 presidential election as scheduled was to enable the 3rd Defendant the manipulation of the election of 2015 in his favor to the detriment of the Plaintiffs. 6.7.7. The Plaintiffs will at the trial show further evidence that the 3rd Defendant has since the forced postponement of elections been engaged in clandestine move of bribing religious leader of CAN, traditional rulers and corrupting and monetizing the polity to the humiliation and detriment of the Plaintiffs. 6.7.8. The Plaintiffs case against the 3rd Defendant as both the Presidential Candidate of the 4th Defendant who as sitting President and Commander – In – Chief of the Armed Forces, controls and epitomizes the authority of state, Nigeria, the authority he now abuses to the detriment of the Plaintiffs who are sponsoring Political Party and Presidential candidates at the 2015 presidential election. 6.7.9. The 3rd Defendant’s political intimidation against the interest and aspiration of the Plaintiffs to freely contest the 2015 Presidential election has cost the Plaintiffs the confidence of their followers, supporters and voting populace who are scared off by the uncompromising, bullish and savage attitude of the 3 rd Defendant and 4th Defendant to the prospect of losing the presidential election as they violate all known electoral laws in the land even as they seek to truncate the presidential election as scheduled by the 5th Defendant and create uncertainties to the detriment of the Plaintiffs.

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