Double nomination: ACourt dismisses PDP suit against Tinubu, Shettima
The Court of Appeal, Abuja, Friday evening, dismissed an appeal by the Peoples Democratic Party, seeking the disqualification of the presidential candidate, All Progressives Congress, Bola Tinubu, and his vice, Kashim Shettima, in the February 25 election.
A three-member panel headed by Justice James Abundaga, in a unanimous judgment, held that the PDP failed to establish that it had locus standi to institute the case.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the PDP, in an appeal marked: CA/ABJ/CV/108/2023, had prayed the appellate court to reverse the Jan. 13 judgment delivered by Justice Inyang Ekwo of a Federal High Court, Abuja which dismissed its suit on the grounds that the PDP lacked locus standi to have instituted the suit.
While the PDP was the appellant, the Independent National Electoral Commission, APC, Tinubu and Shettima were respondents in the appeal.
The PDP had, in the suit filed on July 28, 2022, challenged the validity of the Tinubu/Shettima ticket for the 2023 presidential election.
It argued that Shettimas nomination as the running mate was in breach of the provisions of Sections 29(1), 33, 35 and 84{1)}(2)} of the Electoral Act, 2022 (as amended), claiming that Shettima had double nominations.
It claimed that when Shettima was nominated as a vice presidential candidate, he had not resigned or withdrawn his nomination as candidate for the Borno Central Senatorial poll.
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