The Supreme Court has dismissed the Allied Peoples Movement’s (APM) challenge contesting Kashim Shettima’s selection as the All Progressives Congress’ (APC) Vice Presidential candidate in the last presidential election.
After the appellant’s lawyer, Chukwuma Majukwu Umeh, applied to drop the appeal, a seven-member panel led by Justice John Okoro dismissed it.
Members of the panel had, at the mention of the appeal, noted that it was frivolous because the Supreme Court had, in an earlier case of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) v. INEC and others, resolved this issue that Shettima was properly nominated.
Justice Okoro pointedly asked Umeh what he thought his client would benefit from the outcome of the case if not only to further overburden the court.
Umeh had made efforts to distinguish his client’s case from that if the PDP v. INEC and others, but later had a change of mind when Justice Okoro insisted that the appeal lacked any utilitarian value.
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