The Presidential Election Petition Court sitting in Abuja on Saturday, watched a video recorded by Channels Television News at 10 bulletin, showing APC Presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu, announcing his running mate in Daura during his visit to ex-president Mohammadu Buhari
The video evidence is on one of the series of consultative meetings with political parties before the elections.
Kashim Shettima and APC’s initial Vice-Presidential placeholder, Kabiru Masari, alleging that Shettima while being fielded by the APC as its Borno South Senatorial District candidate, accepted to run as Vice Presidential candidate to Tinubu.
Tinubu’s press interview at Daura, Katsina State, where he had gone to intimate former President Muhammadu Buhari of his intention to pick Kashim Shettima as his running mate at the polls.
Obi’s lawyer, Jibril Okutepa, had on Friday tendered the videotapes containing the interviews before the five-member panel of the court chaired by Haruna Tsammani.
In the final video that was played in court on Saturday, Tinubu, who was a presidential flagbearer of the APC, was seen dressed in a blue flowing gown bearing his signature infinity symbol, addressing journalists at Buhari’s country home, Daura, Katsina State, on 10 July 2022.
“I have chosen Senator Kashim Shettima as my running mate. He is competent and reliable,” Tinubu said in the interview, which aired on Channels Television.
Obi urged the court to nullify Tinubu’s victory over the allegation of double nomination against Shettima.
However, the Supreme Court, in a recent judgement, dismissed a suit filed by the PDP challenging Shettima’s alleged dual nomination as a senatorial candidate of the APC in Borno Central Senatorial District as well as holding the vice-presidential ticket of the party in the February polls.
After playing the video recordings of the trio, the court admitted them in evidence despite the respondents’ objections to their admissibility.
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