The Supreme Court on Friday dismissed the suit seeking the disqualification of Kashim Shettima as the vice president of All Progressives Congress (APC) for double nomination, giving a judicial seal of approval for the May 29 inauguration of President-elect, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu and his vice Kashim Shettima.
The Apex Court held that the PDP’s suit praying disqualification of Tinubu and Shettima grossly lacked the locus standi to institute the suit and dismissed it.
Justice Adamu Jauro, who delivered the lead judgment also fined PDP N2 million for poke-nosing into the internal affairs of the All Progressives Congress (APC), in the conduct of its primary elections and nomination of its candidates.
The Apex Court held that apart from the fact that PDP lacked requisite jurisdiction to institute the suit, the party also failed to provide a scintilla of evidence that Shetima engaged in double nomination.
Justice Jauro said, “It is abundantly clear 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.”