[UPDATE] Presidential election petitions: Avoid technicalities, delays, court warns parties, lawyers

It argued that Tinubu’s candidature had elapsed as at the time he nominated Shettima as Masari’s replacement, “and he was no longer in a position constitutionally to nominate a running mate since he had ceased to be a presidential candidate of the APC having regards to the provisions of section 142 of the 1999 Constitution.

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