Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia
The presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi; and his Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Atiku Abubakar; have asked the Supreme Court to quash the tribunal judgment which upheld the victory of President Bola Tinubu.
Obi through his Lead Counsel, Dr Livy Uzoukwu, SAN, filed 50 grounds of Appeal against Tinubu.
The notice of appeal partly read, “Take notice that the Appellants being dissatisfied with the decisions in PETITION NO: CA/PEPC/03/2023 MR. PETER GREGORY OBI & ANOR. v. INDEPENDENT NATIONAL ELECTORAL COMMISSION & ORS. (consolidated with Election Petition Nos: CA/PEPC/04/2023 and CA/PEPC/05/2023), contained in pages 3-327 of the Judgment of the Court of Appeal sitting as the Presidential Election Petition Court, Holden at Abuja, Coram: H. S. Tsammani, Stephen Jonah Adah, Misitura Omodere Bolaji-Yusuff, Boloukuroma Moses Ugo and Abba Bello Mohammed, JJ.C.A. (“the Court below”) delivered on the 6th day of September 2023, and more particularly stated in paragraph 2 of this Notice of Appeal, do hereby appeal to the Supreme Court on the Grounds set out in Paragraph 3 and will at the hearing of the appeal seek the Reliefs sought in paragraph 4 herein.”
On his part, Atiku, through his legal team led by Chief Chris Uche, SAN, filed 35 grounds of appeal to challenge Tinubu’s election victory..
The former Vice President maintained that the verdict of the Justice Haruna Tsammani-led five-member panel of the Court of Appeal, was faulty.
Atiku described the judgment as a grave miscarriage of justice.
The former Vice President accused the PEPC of reaching its unanimous decision based on gross misconstruction and misrepresentation of provisions of both the 1999 Constitution, as amended, and the Electoral Act, 2022.
