The Supreme Court giving a judicial seal of approval for the inauguration of the President-elect, Bola Ahmed Tinubu and the Vice President-elect Kashim Shettima, on Friday struck out a suit seeking the disqualification of the Tinubu and Shettima, over alleged double nomination on Friday.
The suit which was filed by the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, through their counsel, Mike Ozekhome, SAN, alleged that Shettima had double nomination as senatorial candidate for Borno Central Senatorial District and vice-presidential candidate under the All Progressive Congress, APC.
The Apex Court held that the PDP’s suit praying disqualification of Tinubu and Shettima was grossly lacking in merit and dismissed it.
Justice Adamu Jauro slammed a fine of N2 million on PDP for poking its nose in the internal affairs of APC in the conduct of the primary elections and nomination of its candidates.
Justice Jauro agreed with Tinubu’s lawyer, Prince Lateef Fagbemi, SAN, that, “the Appellant PDP in the totality of its position in the instant case, is peeping and poke nosing into the affairs of another party as a busy body and meddlesome interloper”.
The Court held that apart from the fact that PDP lacked requisite jurisdiction to institute the suit, the party also failed to provide an iota of evidence that Shettima engaged in double nomination.
The claim of PDP on the alleged double nomination of the Vice President-elect was described as most unfortunate and a clear deliberate mischief to mislead the Court and the country.
The Supreme Court also agreed with Fagbemi that no matter the pains of PDP on how APC conducted its primary election and nominated its candidates, PDP must remain an onlooker.
The Court held that the action of PDP was painful because it used the social media to set a booby trap for the Supreme Court to blackmail it.
