The Supreme Courtroom pushed apart a swimsuit filed, wanting for the disqualification of the president-elect, Bola Tinubu and the vice chairman-elect, Kashim Shettima, over alleged double nomination.
The Peoples Democratic Celebration (PDP) by their counsel, Mike Ozekhome (SAN), brought the allure alleging that the Shettima had double nomination as senatorial candidate for Borno Central Senatorial District and vice-presidential candidate under the All Progressives Congress (APC).
Reacting to this, the apex court docket held that the PDP lacked the locus standi to bring the movement, for the explanation that celebration became once now not a member of the APC.
Recall that the celebration had earlier filed the allure to the Federal High Courtroom and the Courtroom of Appeal and became once pushed apart for lack of locus standi and a label of N5 million became once issued in opposition to the PDP. The celebration, now not ecstatic, approached the apex court docket.
The PDP had requested the apex court docket to hear the matter on its advantage and identify the grounds attach out for the swimsuit.
Within the swimsuit 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 became once easy the nominated senatorial candidate as at the 14th of July 2022 having emerged in the Could per chance per chance per chance also most essential of the APC, when he became once again nominated the vice presidential candidate.
To boot to, the celebration submitted that he withdrew his senatorial nomination on the 15th of July 2022 and became once by then in breach of Portion 33 on numerous nominations.
On the replacement hand, on January 13, Justice Inyang Ekwo of the Federal High Courtroom, Abuja pushed apart the swimsuit on the grounds that the PDP lacked the locus standi.
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