By Christopher Deborah
Presidential Election Petition Court has dismissed the petition of the Allied People’s Movement, APM for lacking judicial right to challenge the mode of nomination of the then Vice Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Kashim Shettima.
This statement was made by the ARISEtv on their offical Twitter account.
The APM is, in the petition, seeking to void the joint ticket of Bola Tinubu and Kashim Shettima, on grounds of double nomination.
In the lead judgment read by the Chairman, Justice Haruna Tsammani, the court stated that the issue of nomination of a candidate is solely a pre-election matter that should be determined by the Federal High Court, meaning the Election Petition Court lacks jurisdiction to do so.
It also stated that the nomination by substitution, as in the case of Kabir Masari and Shettima, is solely a pre-election matter and that only an aspirant in the party primary can challenge that.
The Court therefore stressed that no political party has the right to challenge the mode of nomination of a candidate in another party, except in line with the provisions of Sections 131 and 137 of the Constitution.
The Court therefore cited the decision of the Supreme Court on 26th of May which had dismissed the case of double nomination against INEC, Kashim Shettima and others.
