Sept 6. Tribunal Ruling: Atiku, Obi head to Supreme Court, says, PEPC goofed

September 20, 2023, News/Comments

The Labour Party and its presidential candidate in the February 25th presidential election, Peter Obi, has filed an appeal against the September 6, 2023 ruling of the Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC) at the Supreme Court.

Obi and LP’s team of lawyers led by Livy Uzokwu (SAN) approached the apex court on 51 grounds which they “termed an error in law to prove that President Bola Tinubu who was the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) did not win the election and that it was wrong for both INEC and the PEPC to declare him winner of the election when many incontrovertible points were proving otherwise.”

The National Publicity Secretary of the Julius Abure led faction of the Labour Party, Obiora Ifoh said this in a statement on Tuesday.

The statement reads: “In their reliefs Obi and the Labour Party sought from the apex Court, four key points; Allow the Appeal, set aside the perverse Judgment of the PEPC, and grant the Reliefs sought in the petition, either in the main or in the alternative.

“On the issue of the 25% requirement for Abuja, Obi and the Labour Party listed the particulars of error by the PEPC as follows. That the PEPC failed to appreciate that for the President to assume the office or position of the Governor of Abuja, is also under a mandate to secure 25% of the votes cast in the FCT.

“They also accused the PEPC of overlooking the fuller purport of section 299 which will be more glaring on a calm examination of section 301 of the constitution.“No date yet has been fixed for the hearing of the case.”

-NATION

 Atiku seeks nullification of President Tinubu’s victory

 Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, has filed an appeal before the Supreme Court to nullify the victory of President Bola Tinubu. Atiku, through his team of lawyers led by Chief Chris Uche, SAN, is praying the apex court to set aside the verdict of the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal delivered on September 6, in favour of Tinubu.

Daily Trust recalls that a five-member PEPT led by Justice Haruna Tsammani, upheld the victory of Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress as the winner of the presidential election held on February 25.

The former Vice President told the Supreme Court that the judgement which dismissed his petition against the outcome of the presidential contest, was not only perverse, but occasioned a grave miscarriage of justice against him.

He maintained that the appeal court erred in law, when it failed to nullify the presidential election on the grounds of non-compliance with the Electoral Act, 2022, adding that the evidence was mentioned before it.

Atiku also said the evidence revealed that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) acted in breach of extant laws and regulations guiding the conduct of elections.

He accused the PEPT of arriving at its unanimous decision based on gross misconstruction and misrepresentation of provisions of both the 1999 Constitution, as amended, and the Electoral Act, 2022.

-Daily Trust

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