Friday night, the Court of Appeal in Abuja rejected an appeal by the Peoples Democratic Party that sought to have Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress and Kashim Shettima, who would have been his running mate, disqualified from the election on February 25.
The PDP failed to prove that it had locus standi to bring the lawsuit, according to a three-member panel led by Judge James Abundaga.
According to the News Agency of Nigeria, the PDP asked the appellate court to overturn the January 13 judgment rendered by Justice Inyang Ekwo of a Federal High Court in Abuja, which dismissed its suit on the grounds that the PDP lacked locus standi to have instituted the suit. The appeal was filed under the case number CA/ABJ/CV/108/2023.
The Independent National Electoral Commission, the APC, Tinubu, and Shettima were respondents in the appeal, with the PDP serving as the appellant.
The Tinubu/Shettima presidential ticket was challenged by the PDP in a lawsuit that was filed on July 28, 2022.