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6.7.10. The 3rd and the 4th Defendants have encouraged hate advertisement and
documentaries against members of the opposition including the Plaintiffs and
courted religious and ethnic division in Nigeria to ensure they do not lose the 2015
presidential election which has heated the entire polity and caused fear amongst the
voting populace to the Plaintiffs detriment, outside the 1 st, 2nd and 3rd Defendants
inability to contain and flush out insurgents in the Northern part of Nigeria to date,
now affecting the Presidential election to the Plaintiffs detriment.
6.7.11. The Plaintiffs losses over the 3rd Defendant continued engineering of political
uncertainties over the rescheduled Presidential elections and insecurity and inability
to guarantee fair play and obedience to electoral laws are estimated well over $150
Million, most of which the Plaintiffs borrowed to prosecute the Presidential election
out of its funds.
6.7.12. The Plaintiffs’ inclusion of the 4th Defendant in the present action is only as
the 3rd Defendant’s sponsoring political party. The 4th Defendant is only attempting
to divert attention from its 3rd Defendant presidential candidate and the elected sitting
President at the 2015 presidential election.
6.7.13. The 4th Defendant is not entitled to the Orders it seeks as they are ungrantable
in the circumstances of this case as a relevant and necessary party to this suit.
6.7.14. The 6th Defendant is not entitled to the relieves sought in objection as they
are also a necessary party to this suit who have a duty to ensure due obedience to
law and order and provide needed security as the civil authority saddled with the
duty to ensure a free, fair and orderly conduct of the presidential election in Nigeria
and the observers of all the electoral laws to prevent any violation of the Plaintiffs’
right to full participate and freely chose its representatives into government without
any obstruction or intimidation of any kind which duty its has neglected, refused and
failed to perform.
6.7.15. The Nigerian Judicial Workers strike was induced by the unwillingness of
the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Defendants to allow due financial autonomy and the independence
of the Judiciary in Nigeria.
6.7.16. The Plaintiffs will at trial contend that its case is fully made out and
established against the Defendants.