Afrigather The Supreme Court docket dismissed a go well with filed, looking for the disqualification of the president-elect, Bola Tinubu and the vice president-elect, Kashim Shettima, over alleged double nomination.
The Peoples Democratic Occasion (PDP) by way of their counsel, Mike Ozekhome (SAN), introduced the enchantment alleging that the Shettima had double nomination as senatorial candidate for Borno Central Senatorial District and vice-presidential candidate beneath the All Progressives Congress (APC).
Reacting to this, the apex courtroom held that the PDP lacked the locus standi to deliver the motion, for the reason that social gathering was not a member of the APC.
Recall that the social gathering had earlier filed the enchantment to the Federal Excessive Court docket and the Court docket of Enchantment and was dismissed for lack of locus standi and a price of N5 million was issued in opposition to the PDP. The social gathering, not happy, approached the apex courtroom.
The PDP had requested the apex courtroom to listen to the matter on its benefit and decide the grounds set out for the go well with.
Within the go well with filed on July 28, 2022, the PDP claimed that the double nomination breached the provisions of sections 29(1), 33, 35, and 84(1)(2) of the Electoral Act, 2022.
PDP insisted and submitted that Shettima was nonetheless the nominated senatorial candidate as on the 14th of July 2022 having emerged within the Might major of the APC, when he was once more nominated the vice presidential candidate.
As well as, the social gathering submitted that he withdrew his senatorial nomination on the fifteenth of July 2022 and was by then in breach of Part 33 on a number of nominations.
Nevertheless, on January 13, Justice Inyang Ekwo of the Federal Excessive Court docket, Abuja dismissed the go well with on the grounds that the PDP lacked the locus standi.
