Mr Tinubu’s candidature is being challenged at the presidential election court in APM’s petition anchored on Mr Shettima’s alleged double nomination.
has urged the Presidential Election Petition Court in Abuja to dismiss a petition challenging his candidature in the 25 February election on the basis of alleged double nomination of Vice President Kashim Shettima as his running mate for the poll.
One of the three pending petitions – the one filed by the Allied Peoples Movement – urged the court to nullify Mr Tinubu’s election due to the “flawed process” of nominating Mr Shettima as the president’s running mate. The APM asked the court to declare Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party , who came second in the election, as the winner, instead of Mr Tinubu.At the resumed hearing of the petition on Tuesday, Mr Tinubu and Shettima’s lawyer, Wole Olanipekun, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, drew the court’s attention to the Supreme Court’s decision last Friday, dismissing a suit filed by the PDP to challenge Mr Tinubu’s candidature on the same grounds of Mr Shettima’s alleged double nomination.
Promising to provide the court with copies of the Supreme Court decision on the matter, Mr Olanipekun suggested that there was no basis of going into full trial of the suit when a similar issue had been determined by the Supreme Court.
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