Court Throws Out Case To Disqualify Tinubu/Shettima Presidential Ticket

By Uche Mbah

It was jubilations at the National headquarters of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Wednesday, as an Abuja High Court dismissed a suit seeking to disqualify their Presidential Candidate, Bola Tinubu, over the controversial Muslim Muslim ticket.

An Abuja-based lawyer, Osigwe Ahmed Momoh, had filed a suit at the High Court Challenging the legality of the Muslim-Muslim ticket of the APC.

APC is fielding two Muslims – Bola Tinubu as Presidential Candidate and Kashim Shettima as Vice Presidential Candidates of the party, a situation that was not well received by the Christian community which alleged marginalisation.

Mommoh had gone to Court to seek for the nullification of the candidacy of Tinubu and his running mate on the ground that the ticket is against the spirit and letters of sections 14, 15 and 224 of the 1999 constitution.

But the Presiding Judge, The Honourable Justice Ahmed Ramat Mohammed, dismissed the suit, saying the lawyer has no locus standi,since he is not a member of APC and was not part of the Presidential Candidate selection process.

Mommoh had asked the Court for an order of perpetual injunction to the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to refrain from publishing the name of the party, APC, and the Presidential Candidates for the purpose of 2023 elections.

In his ruling, Justice Mohammed insisted that Mommoh had no legal rights to institute the case. He, therefore, dismissed the case.