A Federal High Court, Abuja, on Friday, dismissed a Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)’ suit seeking the disqualification of Sen. Bola Tinubu, the presidential candidate of All Progressives Congress (APC), and his vice, Mr Kassim Shettima, for the 2023 general elections.Delivering judgment, Justice Inyang Ekwo, dismissed the suit on the ground that the PDP lacked locus standi to institute the suit.Justice Ekwo, who held that the case was caught by the principle of issue estoppel, described the suit as an abuse of court process.The PDP, in its originating summons marked: FHC/ABJ/CS/1734/2022,…
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