8 6.1.17. The Defendants have ensured and allowed the Courts in Nigeria to be under lock and keys since the 2nd of January, 2015 following Judicial Workers strike due to the continued impunity of the Defendants violating and neglecting the principles of the rule of law and separation of power in Nigeria, which prevents and denies the Plaintiffs’ access to justice over Defendants rights abuses against them at election period as it only favors the Defendants’ plan to manipulate the presidential election in their favor if not restrained and made to face sanctions in the interest of the regional growth, democratically and economically. 6.1.18. The Plaintiffs further state that they are being humiliated out of the February 14, 2015n presidential contest before the election date by the Defendants sheer crude methods and violation of their rights to freely participate following the Defendants impunity of receiving publicly N21.27 Billion as against the laws without commiserate prosecution and conviction and or disqualification as required by the laws in Nigeria against the offending 3rd and 4th Defendants by appropriate State authorities. 6.1.19. The Defendants desperation and activities engendering violence and intimidation of the Plaintiffs opponent in the polity in spite of the peace accord as brokered by the respected former Secretary General of the United Nations, Kofi Annan, have remained unabated as the 3rd and 4th Defendants of the ruling political party in Nigeria have not relented in deploying in clear abuse of powers, all state apparatus including security operatives and agencies of the Nigerian Government to partisan position to the detriment of the Plaintiffs in the absence of a level playing field towards the presidential election. 6.1.20. The Plaintiffs avers that the Defendants have by acts of intimidation and violent disposition towards the electioneering process engendering insecurity thereby preventing and scaring off Plaintiffs’ contestants at the presidential election of February 14, 2015 and making it difficult for the Plaintiffs to freely choose their representatives and participate in the Government of Nigeria. 6.1.21. The Plaintiffs will at the hearing and trial of the case rely on and show evidence in proof of their case of restitution and damages over losses of the gross violation of their right to freely contest at the February 14th 2015 presidential election as occasioned by the Defendants.

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