The Presidential Election Tribunal has admitted as exhibit the voluntary resignation letter tendered by Kashim Shettima.
Shettima purportedly tendered the letter as the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) for the Borno Central senatorial district.
The letter dated July 6, 2022, was tendered by Wole Olanipekun, lawyer to President Bola Tinubu and Shettima, at the opening of their defence in the petition filed by Peter Obi and the Labour Party (LP).
Obi and LP are challenging the outcome of the February 25 presidential election.
Among several issues, the petitioners alleged that Shettima was guilty of double nomination as APC senatorial and vice-presidential candidate.
Recall that the Tribunal had also admitted the Chicago state University credential of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
At the resumed hearing of the petition, the defence tendered educational documents to establish Tinubu’s attendance and graduation at the American University comprising of the admission letter offered the president by the institution, as well as a United States of America visa from 2011 to 2021, among others.
Lawyers to President Tinubu also presented the membership register of the Labour Party in Anambra State to prove its case that Peter Obi was not qualified to contest the 2023 presidential election on the platform of the LP, as at the time of the election.
