THE Federal High Court sitting in Yenagoa has ruled that former President Goodluck Jonathan is eligible to contest the 2023 presidential election.
The presiding judge, Justice Isa Hamma Dashen, gave the judgement on Friday, when he held that former President Jonathan’s right to again contest for the office of president of Nigeria cannot be stopped by any retroactive law.
There have been intense political debates over Jonathan’s eligibility to run for the presidency a second time, after he was defeated at the polls in 2015 by President Buhari, when Jonathan sought to be re-elected.
