The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), has asked the presidential election tribunals to dismiss separate petitions filed by three opposition parties, Action Alliance (AA), Allied Peoples Movement (APM) and Action People’s Party (APP) seeking to nullify the suits challenging the victory of its presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu in the February 25 presidential election.
The three parties had filed the petitions challenging the emergence of Tinubu as president-elect on different grounds with the AA claiming that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), had failed to include the name of its authentic candidate for the presidential election, Solomon-David Okanigbuan, and went with a factional candidate, Hamza Al-Mustapha.
In its petition, the APM contended that Tinubu was not qualified to contest the election on the grounds of an alleged double nomination of his then running mate, Kashim Shettima, as well as the substitutin of the party’s initial placeholder, Kabir Masari, with Shettima.
