The Allied Peoples Movement (APM)’s petition challenging double nomination of vice-President, Kashim Shettima has just been struck out by the Presidential Election Tribunal in Abuja. Justice Haruna Tsammani, chairman of the panel, read out the ruling. The tribunal held that the issue of double nomination of any candidate was a pre-election matter. According to Tsammani, the APM lacks the locus standi to challenge the nomination of the candidates of another political party.
The three presidential candidates who are slugging it out at the Presidential Election Tribunal sitting in Abuja; President Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party and Peter Obi of the Labour Party are all absent in court as it delivers its ruling. However, the National Chairman of the APC, Abdullahi Ganduje; Vice President, Kashim Shettima, and the embattled LP National Chairman, Julius Abure were present.
Ahead of the final judgement of the Presidential Election Petitions Court (PEPC) on the petitions filed against the electoral victory of President Bola Tinubu slated for this Wednesday morning, a mammoth crowd of litigants, lawyers and other interested parties have arrived the court. Already seated in the courtroom were Vice President Kashim Shettima; Chief of Staff to the President, Femi Gbajabiamila; All Progressive Congress, APC, Chairman, Abdullahi Umar Ganduje; Governors Hope Uzodinma and Yahaya Bello of Imo and Kogi States, respectively, among others from the ruling party.
The Lagos State Parks Management Committee led by Musiliu Akinsanya, popularly known as MC Oluomo has mobilised some thugs to be on standby in case the ruling of the Presidential Election Tribunal does not favour President Bola Tinubu. SaharaReporters gathered that the hoodlums mobilised by MC Oluomo to Abuja include members of the Lagos State Parks Management Committee.
The outcry over lack of religious balance in the winning APC presidential ticket is echoing in the races for leadership positions in the 10th National Assembly.