The Federal High Court in Abuja has fixed May 25 for hearing in the suit challenging the nomination of Dr. Bukola Saraki as the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for Kwara Central Senatorial District in the last National Assembly election.

Joined as the defendants in the suit are the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and Dr Bukola Saraki as 1st to 3rd respondents.

Dr Saraki had emerged winner in the April 9 National Assembly election in the Kwara Central Senatorial District.

The plaintiff, Alhaji L�aziz Jimoh had approached the court claiming that he ought to be the candidate of the party in the said election being the only screened and cleared candidate after the winner of the primary election, Alhaji Isiaka Goldwithdrew from the race.

In a forty-eight paragraph affidavit deposed to by Alhaji Jimoh, he averred that as at the close of nomination for the primary election for the position of senator for the Kwara Central Senatorial district on December 29, 2010, he and one Alhaji Isiaka Gold were the only nominated candidates cleared by the party to contest the primary election.

The plaintiff is therefore praying for a declaration that the purported election of Dr Saraki as the PDP Senatorial candidate for the Kwara Central Senatorial district at the purported senatorial re-run primary election of the party held in Ilorin on Saturday, January 29, 2011 organized and conducted by the state executive committee of the PDP is illegal, unconstitutional, unlawful, null and void and of no effect.