Tribunal To Tinubu: 'You can't stop APM's petition'

Moves by the All Progressives Congress (APC) and President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to halt the Allied People’s Movement (APM) in its petition challenging his qualification for February 25, 2023, presidential election was today refused by the Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC) in Abuja.

Specifically, President Tinubu through his lead counsel, Chief Wole Olanipekun, SAN, had attempted to use a Supreme Court judgment delivered on May 26, 2023, to terminate the APM’S petition, but the request was turned down.

In challenging the application, the President stated that the Supreme Court had resolved the sole issue raised in the petition of the APM in the judgment in a suit filed by the People’s Democratic Party (PDP).

The President then sought to move the Court to invoke the spirit and letters of the Supreme Court judgment to stop the hearing of the APM’s petition.

But the PEPC, presided over by Justice Haruna Simon Tsammani, disagreed with President Tinubu and held that the party cannot be shut out in the face of a fair hearing.

The judge told President Tinubu to keep his objections against the hearing of the petition to the final address stage of the court’s proceedings.

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