Supreme Court for once got law correct on Tinubu’s double nomination nay section 134 (a) of electoral act
By Barr Harry Fanon
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As a lawyer, I was very sure the Supreme Court would get it right on the interpretation of the act as aforementioned.
PDP erred on the timing of their suit. This is where they lacked the locus stand.
It is only an APC member that has the right to challenge the double nomination pre-election all others are post-election.
There are two applications of section 134:
1 Where party members challenge the nomination. On this occasion, it is pre-election matter and a party internal affair and
2 Where other nonparties can challenge the nomination/non-qualification. On this occasion, it is post-election matter.
On legal technicalities, PDP should have waited to challenge Tinubu nomination after the election and not before.
For this reason, LP exercised due diligence in challenging the double nomination after the election under the external party application of section 134(a).
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Harry Fanon is a philosopher and a jurisprudence attorney writing from his Ahiazu Cave.
