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APM’S petition against my election victory died May 26: Tinubu.
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on Tuesday in Abuja informed the Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC) that the petition instituted against him and his Vice, Kashim Shetima, by the Allied People’s Movement (APM), died at the Supreme Court on May 26, 2023.
The President said that the Supreme Court resolved the principal issues raised by the petitioner, which touched on the ‘placeholder’ by Kabir Masari and Vice President Kashim Shettima’s alleged double nomination last Friday, in a suit instituted by the People’s Democratic Party PDP on similar grounds.
Tinubu, through his lawyer, Mr Wole Olanipekun SAN, disclosed that the PDP’S case had resolved the grievances brought before the Court by the Allied People’s Movement.
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The Supreme Court had on Friday held that PDP, or any other parties, have no right to poke their nose into how other parties conducted their primary elections and nominated their candidates.
While dismissing PDP’S case, the Apex Court described the party as a busybody and meddling as some interloper. Accordingly, it imposed a fine of N2M on the party for meddling in the internal affairs of the All Progressives Congress (APC).
Olanipekun argued that the APM’S petition was similar to the case taken to the Supreme Court by PDP and dismissed because PDP has no business interfering with the internal affairs of other parties.
He submitted that the APM’S petition is predicated on the internal affairs of the APC and that the Supreme Court’s latest judgment had taken the life out of the petition.
APM’S petition against my election victory died May 26: Tinubu
He promised to make a copy of the judgment available within two days to the Court for perusal on the effects of the APM’S Petition.
Counsel to the APM, Mr Sheu Abubakar, requested an adjournment in the petition hearing based on the submissions and revelations of Chief Wole Olanipekun SAN.
Counsel to All Progressives Congress APC Lateef Fagbemi SAN and Abubakar Mahmoud SAN, who appeared for the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), did not object to the request for adjournment sought by the APM.
Chairman of the Court, Justice Haruna Tsammani, granted the request for adjournment and shifted the hearing to Friday, June 2.
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