The Supreme Court has rejected the appeal submitted by the Allied Peoples Movement (APM) in their attempt to challenge the nomination of Kashim Shettima as the Vice Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) during the previous presidential election.
This decision was made by a seven-member panel, led by Justice John Okoro, who officially dismissed the appeal. The dismissal followed a request from the appellant’s lawyer, Chukwuma Majukwu Umeh, to withdraw the appeal.
Members of the panel had, at the mention of the appeal, noted that it was frivolous because the Supreme Court had, in an earlier case of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) v. INEC and others, resolved this issue that Shettima was properly nominated.
Justice Okoro pointedly asked Umeh what he thought his client would benefit from the outcome of the case if not only to further overburden the court.
Umeh had made efforts to distinguish his client’s case from that if the PDP v. INEC and others, but later had a change of mind when the Justice Okoro insisted that the appeal lacked any utilitarian value.
