The Justice Haruna Tsammani-led five-member panel of the Presidential Petition Election Tribunal on Wednesday said the Allied Peoples Movement’s petition challenging the qualification of Vice President, Kashim Shettima, was a pre-election matter.
Reading his verdict, Tsammani said the matter ought to have been challenged before the conduct of the presidential election.
He said, “The issue of qualification or disqualification is a constitutional one.
The issue of disqualification or qualification is a pre-election matter.
HE ADDED THAT It must be determined before the conduct of the election.
ON THE STRENGHT OF THEIS THE HE ADDED THAT THE court has no jurisdiction to hear the matter and even if it does it is status-barred because it is a pre-election matter against Tinubu, Shettima
The APM was challenging the qualification of the Vice president, Kashim Shettima among others.
