President Bola Tinubu and Vice President Kashim Shettima have appealed to the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal not to nullify Nigeria’s February 25 presidential election.
The President and his Vice President said the tribunal should not cancel the presidential election that brought them to power over the controversy surrounding the 25 per cent in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).
They also urged the court to remove the Labour Party (LP) petition and its presidential candidate, Peter Obi.
Tinubu and Shettima’s appeal was contained in a final address by their lead counsel, Wole Olanipekun.
In the address, Olanipekun branded the arguments and testimonies of witnesses presented by the challengers as “frivolous, bogus and based on hearsay.”
The legal practitioner told the court to dismiss the petition because it lacked merit and substance.
Olanipekun stressed that the “remote” contention of the petitioners that Tinubu and Shettima’s election should be cancelled because they did not get 25 per cent or one-quarter of the votes recorded in the FCT was not backed by any fact in the law as the use of “and” in the constitution is conjunctive and not disjunctive.
