Tribunal Strikes Out Suit Seeking To Disqualify Tinubu Over Shettima’s Nomination

The Presidential Election Petitions Court has struck out a petition of the Allied Peoples Movement (APM) challenging the qualification of President Bola Tinubu and Kashim Shettima.

The Tribunal declared that it lacks the powers to hear the petition challenging the qualification of Tinubu and Shettima and their election.

Reading the lead judgment on Wednesday, Justice Haruna Tsammani held that the issues brought before the tribunal are pre-election matters, which ought to have been at a high court.

He added that the timeframe of 180 days within which to determine the issue had elapsed.

“In Alhassan and others versus Ishaku and others, it was held that an election tribunal has no jurisdiction on the primary of a political party,” he said.