The Presidential Election Petition Court resumed hearing the petitions challenging the outcome of the 2023 presidential election, which produced Bola Tinubu as president and Kashim Shettima as vice president.<\/p>\n
During Tuesday\u2019s proceedings, counsel for Tinubu, Wole Olanipekun, SAN, informed the court of a recent judgement of the Supreme Court, which, according to him, appears to have resolved the same issue the Allied Peoples Movement has brought before the court.<\/p>\n
According to Punch, he referenced the Supreme Court\u2019s decision of Friday, May 26th, 2023, that dismissed the suit filed by the Peoples Democratic Party, which prayed to the court to nullify the ticket that produced the president and his vice president on grounds of double nomination.<\/p>\n
Olanipekun SAN, sought to know if the decision of the apex court does not affect the case of the APM, which is also challenging the outcome of the election on the grounds of using a placeholder, Kabir Masari, for Shettima.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are aware that the Supreme Court gave a decision on this same matter in the yet-to-be-reported judgement SC\/CV\/501\/20223 and the parties involved were Peoples Democratic Party versus INEC and three others, where the apex court resolved all the issues.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe promise within the next two days that the certified true copies of the judgement of the Supreme Court will be made available.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd we will also discuss with the petitioners whether, in light of the decision of the Supreme Court, there will still be the need to continue with this petition.<\/p>\n
Responding, counsel for the APM, Shehu Abubakar, however, requested a short time to enable the petitioners to avail themselves of the judgement to aid their decision.<\/p>\n
He said, \u201cBased on the submission of the learned silk, we shall be praying to adjourn the hearing of this petition to enable us to apply to the Supreme Court for the copy of the judgement referred to, to enable us to examine the same and know the effect it has on this petition.\u201d<\/p>\n
The court granted his request and adjourned APM\u2019s hearing to June 2nd.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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