The Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC) has admitted the voluntary resignation letter of Vice President, Kashim Shettima as the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) for Borno Central senatorial District.
The PEPC on Wednesday admitted in evidence a Certified True Copy (CTC) of Shettima’s resignation letter.It was learnt that the voluntary resignation letter which was dated July 6, 2022, was tendered among other documents by a lawyer to President Bola Tinubu and Vice President Kashim Shettima, Wole Olanipekun (SAN), at the opening of their defence in the petition filed by the Labour Party (LP) and its presidential candidate for the 2023 general election, Peter Obi.
Recall that both Obi and the Labour Party are challenging the competence of the joint ticket of President Bola Tinubu and Shettma, claiming that Shettima had a double nomination.However, the letter, which was admitted as evidence today, is supposed to prove that the Vice President resigned his senatorial candidacy before his selection as the vice presidential candidate of the APC for the 2023 general election.