Supreme Court Delivers Judgement On Atiku/Obi’s Appeal Tomorrow
The Supreme court has fixed Thursday October 26 to deliver judgment in the appeals seeking to void the election of President Bola Tinubu.
Festus Akande, the apex court’s spokesperson, confirmed the development to journalists in Abuja, today.
Atiku Abubakar, candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), and Peter Obi of the Labour Party (LP), are seeking to overturn the judgment of the presidential election petition tribunal which affirmed Tinubu’s election as president.
One of the issues raised by Obi is that Tinubu failed to secure 25 percent of votes cast in the federal capital territory (FCT).
Obi is also contending that Tinubu’s forfeiture of $460,000 in the US disqualifies him from contesting for president.Both candidates also challenged the failure of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to transmit election results electronically.Obi and LP’s 73-page notice of appeal is premised on 51 grounds.
In the notice of appeal, Obi and his party insisted that the tribunal erred in its findings that Tinubu won the election by the majority of lawful votes cast.
They also faulted the panel for striking out several paragraphs in their petitions.
The appellants said the panel was wrong to have held that they failed to prove their allegation of non-compliance with the Electoral Act.
Consequently, they are praying the supreme court to “set aside the perverse judgment of the court below” and “grant the reliefs sought in the petition either in the main or in the alternative”
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