Same-Faith Ticket: Court Never Ruled On Constitutionality, Says Lawyer

A legal practitioner and BBH legal counsel, Osigwe Ahmed Momoh, has said the court that dismissed his earlier challenge to the same-faith presidential ticket did not determine the constitutionality of the arrangement, but based its decision on the issue of legal standing.
Momoh, who raised the issue in a fresh legal argument, said what was subsequently reported as not a determination that a same-faith ticket was constitutional.
According to him, the court’s decision centered on locus standi, or whether the applicant had sufficient legal standing to bring the case.
He argued that the distinction is important because, in his view, the substantive constitutional question was not determ...