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Alleged exclusion: INEC insists Al-Mustapha represented AA, defeated by Tinubu in presidential

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The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has told the Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC) sitting in Abuja that retired Maj. Hamza Al-Mustapha was the duly sponsored presidential candidate of Action Alliance (AA) in the Feb 25 election.INEC, through its team of lawyers led by Abubakar Mahmoud, SAN, insisted that though Al-Mustapha participated in the election, he was defeated, alongside16 other candidates, by Sen. Bola Tinubu, the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate.The commission stated this in its reply to a petition marked: CA/PEPC/01/2023 filed by AA and Solomon-David Okanigbuan, the 1st…

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Tinubu: APC asks tribunal to dismiss Obi, LP’s petition with substantial cost

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The All Progressives Congress (APC), on Monday, prayed the Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC) in Abuja to dismiss the petition filed by the Labour Party (LP) and its Presidential Candidate, Mr Peter Obi, against the emergence of Sen. Bola Tinubu as president-elect in the Feb. 25 election.The APC, the 4th respondent, urged the PEPC to reject the petition in its notice of preliminary objection marked: CA/PEPC/03/2023 and filed at PEPC’s Secretariat, Monday night, by Thomas Ojo, a member of the party’s legal team led by Lateef Fagbemi, SAN, in Abuja.The…

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2023 poll: Court dismisses PDP’s suit seeking disqualification of Tinubu, Shettima

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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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Tinubu prays court to dismiss suit challenging his candidacy

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Sen. Bola Tinubu, the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), on Wednesday, asked a Federal High Court, Abuja, to dismiss a suit seeking his nullification from the 2023 general election.Tinubu, through his counsel, Karma Fagbemi, told Justice Binta Nyako that the plaintiff; the Incorporated Trustees of Kingdom Human Rights Foundation International, was a meddlesome interloper who was neither a political party nor a candidate in the poll.He said the plaintiff lacked locus standi (legal right) to institute the case, which invariably challenged the political party’s decision and its…

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2023: Tinubu, Shettima pray court to dismiss PDP’s suit

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Sen. Bola Tinubu, the All Progressives Congress (APC)’s presidential candidate and his vice, Kashim Shettima, have asked a Federal High Court, Abuja to dismiss the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)’s suit against them for being incompetent.Tinubu and Shettima told Justice Inyang Ekwo in two motions on notice: FHC/ABJ/CS/1734/22 and filed separately by their lawyer, Lateef Fagbemi, SAN.The motions prayed the court for an order striking out and/or dismissing the suit for want of jurisdiction.The PDP, in its originating summons, had sued the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), APC, Tinubu and Shettima…

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2023: Lawyer sues INEC over alleged refusal to release CTCs of Tinubu’s nomination forms, others

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A lawyer, Mike Enahoro-Ebah, has dragged the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to court over its alleged refusal to furnish him with the certified true copies (CTCs) of the nominations forms and other documents submitted to it by the All Progressives Congress (APC)’s 2023 presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu. Enahoro-Ebah, in a motion on ex-parte dated and filed August 5 at the Federal High Court, Abuja, sued INEC as sole respondent in the matter. In the application marked FHC/ABJ/CS/1337/2022, the lawyer asked the court to direct the electoral umpire to release…

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