Presidential Election Petition Court on Monday dismissed an objection raised by President Bola Tinubu's lawyers to stop the Allied Peoples Movement p
Presidential Election Petition Court on Monday dismissed an objection raised by President Bola Tinubu’s lawyers to stop the Allied Peoples Movement petition challenging the qualification of the President
Counsel for Tinubu, Wole Olanipekun, SAN, informed the court on May 30 of the judgement, the Supreme Court, which ruled in a similar matter it filed before the PEPC.
Olanipekun argued that the Supreme Court in its judgment had resolved the same issue the APM has brought before the court.
At the resumed hearing on the petition on Monday, counsel for APM, G.A. Ijiagbonya, informed the court that he still wants to go ahead with the case despite Olanikpekun’s reminder of the apex court’s judgement.
Ijiagbonya said he has received the Supreme Court judgement sought to be used to terminate APM’s petition.
He, however, sought a one-week adjournment to obtain a vital document from the Independent National Electoral Commission.
The chairman of the five-man panel, Justice Haruna Tsammani, held that the party cannot be shut out in the face of a fair hearing.
Justice Tsammani asked Tinubu to keep his objections against the hearing of the petition until the final address stage of the court’s proceedings.
Similar objections raised by APC, through its counsel, Charles Edosomwen, SAN, against the petition on the same ground were turned down by PEPC for the same reason.
In a brief ruling, Justice Tsammani fixed Wednesday, June 21, for the hearing of the petition.
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