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Court Dismisses Tinubu’s Disqualification Suit, Slams PDP ₦2m For Poke-Nosing

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Court Dismisses Tinubu’s Disqualification Suit, Slams PDP ₦2m For Poke-Nosing Into APC Affairs

The Supreme Court has on Friday slammed the opposition party, Peoples Democratic Party, ‘(PDP), with a fine of ₦2m over a suit seeking the disqualification of president-elect, Bola Ahmed Tinibu and his running mate from contesting the 2023 presidential election.

given a judicial seal of approval for the inauguration of President-elect, Bola Ahmed Tinubu and Vice President-elect Kashim Shettima.

The Court on Friday dismissed the suit by the Peoples Democratic Party PDP, seeking their disqualification from the 2023 presidential election.

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 who delivered the lead judgment slammed a fine of ₦2 million on PDP 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.

Justice Jauro agreed with Tinubu’s lawyer, Prince Lateef Fagbemi, SAN, that PDP acted as a busybody and meddlesome interloper in the ways and manners it dabbled into APC’s affairs unjustly.

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 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 the PDP on how APC conducted its primary election and nominated its candidates, PDP must remain an onlooker.

“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 busybody and meddlesome interloper,” he said.

The Court held that the action of PDP was painful because it used social media to set a booby trap for the Supreme Court to blackmail it.

It said this is most unfortunate, unwarranted, and uncalled for.

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