The Allied Peoples Movement, APM, requested that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu be disqualified from the February 25 presidential election due to his unlawful nomination. The Presidential Election Petition Court on Friday postponed the decision in this matter.

APM is asking the court to throw out Tinubu's victory on the grounds that Kashim Shettima, his vice presidential candidate, unlawfully permitted himself to be nominated twice for the two distinct seats.

Following the resignation of one Kabiru Masari, who had been the initial Vice Presidential candidate to Tinubu, Shettima was nominated by the All Progressives Congress, or APC, as a candidate for the Borno Central Senatorial District. He was then nominated by the same party as a Vice Presidential candidate.

The APM complained that Shettima and the APC had violated the Electoral Act by allegedly using a double nomination.

APM, through its attorney Andrew Malgwu SAN, urged the court to use the appropriate law to invalidate the nomination of Tinubu and Shettima on the grounds that it was illegitimate, illegal, and unreasonable at the hearings on Friday where final addresses were approved.

But the petition's first respondent, the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, asked the court to dismiss it because it lacked merit.

The APC requested that the petition be dismissed on all grounds because it was pointless, obnoxious, and unjustified. The APC was represented by Lateef Olasunkanmi Fagbemi, SAN.

In light of the Supreme Court's ruling that other political parties cannot meddle in the internal affairs of another party, particularly when it comes to the nomination problem, Fagbemi contended that the petition was dead on arrival.

In a similar vein, Tinubu and Shettima urged the APM's petition to be completely dismissed and made the same argument while being represented by legal giant Chief Wole Olanipekun SAN.

Olanipekun argued before the court that the petition should have been honourably abandoned as soon as the Supreme Court declared that no party has the right to interfere with another party's process for choosing its nominees for political office.

The ruling was postponed indefinitely by the court's presiding justice, Justice Haruna Simon Tsammani, shortly after the proceedings.