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From Godwin Tsa, Abuja
The Supreme Court has dismissed the appeal lodged by the Allied Peoples Movement (APM) challenging the nomination of Kashim Shettima as the Vice Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress(APC) in the February 25 presidential election.
A seven-member panel, headed by Justice John Okoro dismissed the appeal after the lead counsel to the appellant Chukwuma Machukwu Ume (SAN) applied to withdraw it.
When the appeal was called, members of the panel had 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.
Specifically, 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.
Although Umeh had made efforts to wriggle out of the situation by trying to distinguish his client’s case from that of 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.
