The Presidential Election Petition Tribunal has dismissed a suit brought before it by the Allied Peoples Movement (APM), in which they sought the disqualification of Vice President Kashim Shettima.
The APM argued that the All-Progressives Congress (APC) had improperly sponsored Shettima by nominating him as the vice-presidential candidate for the election.
The opposition party claimed that Shettima was still the APC candidate for the Borno Central Senatorial District on July 14 when he accepted the nomination for the vice-presidential candidate. However, in its ruling on Wednesday, Justice Haruna Tsanani of the PEPT declared that the APM's suit, which revolved around the alleged multiple nominations of VP Shettima, fell under the category of a pre-election matter and therefore lacked the jurisdiction to entertain it.
The court also held that the APM lacked the necessary legal standing to institute matters on the nomination and sponsorship of Shettima and described it as an abuse of the court process.
