File: Rotimi Amaechi (left) and Atiku Abubakar.
The Federal High Court in Abuja on Friday struck out a pre-election dispute suit filed by the former governor of Rivers, Rotimi Amaechi, against former vice president Atiku Abubakar.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Amaechi had filed the suit challenging the emergence of Abubakar as the presidential candidate of the African Democratic Congress (ADC).
Jutsice Joyce Abdulmalik, in a ruling, struck out the suit after the former governor’s lawyer, Jibrin Okutepa, SAN, moved a motion for withdrawal.
Okutepa informed the court that an application for the discontinuance of the case had already been filed after parties had settled their differences.
