A legal practitioner and social critic, Inibehe Effiong, has
reacted to the Supreme Court judgement dismissing the disqualification of
President-elect Bola Ahmed Tinubu and Vice President-elect Kashim Shettima.
Effiong claimed the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, should
have persuaded one of the aspirants who took part in the All Progressives
Congress, APC, primary to challenge Shettima’s double nomination.
He said that the PDP made a serious mistake in its decision
to challenge Shettima’s double nomination by itself.
The Apex Court on Friday dismissed the suit filed by the
PDP, seeking Tinubu and Shettima’s disqualification from the 2023 presidential
election.
The Court held that the PDP’s suit was grossly lacking in
merit.
In a post via his verified Twitter handle on Friday, the
legal expert said that the outcome of the litigation was predictable.
He wrote, “In law, strategy is important and can make
nonsense of the substance of a case if not properly considered
“PDP could have persuaded one of the numerous aspirants who
participated in the APC primary to challenge Shettima’s double nomination. But
it decided to do so on its own.
“The outcome was predictable. It wasn’t going to be tenable
given the state of the law on pre-election matters.
“It is tidier to raise it as a ground in the petition and
contend that the double nomination eroded Tinubu/Shettima’s qualification. This
case was always a distraction.”
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