The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP presidential candidate in the February 25, 2023 election, Atiku Abubakar has approached the Supreme Court to seek a nullification of the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal’s judgement.
You will recall that the presidential tribunal on the 6th of September, 2023 upheld the declaration of President Bola Tinubu as the winner of this year’s presidential election.
The tribunal also struck out the petition filed by the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi and the Allied Peoples Movement (APM) petition.
Atiku in the Notice of Appeal predicated on 35 grounds, insisted that the tribunal in the judgment delivered by Justice Haruna Simon Tsammani committed grave error and miscarriage of justice in its findings and conclusion in the petition challenging the declaration of Tinubu as President by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC.
The Notice of Appeal just filed by Atiku’s lead counsel, Chief Chris Uche, SAN, is praying the Supreme Court to set aside the whole findings and conclusions of the Tribunal on the grounds that they did not represent the true picture of the grounds of his petition.
Among others, the former Vice President maintained that the Tribunal erred in law when it failed to nullify the presidential election held on February 25, 2023, on the grounds of non-compliance with the Electoral Act, 2022, when by evidence before the tribunal, INEC conducted the election based on grave and gross misrepresentation contrary to the principles of the Electoral Act 2022 and based on the “doctrine of legitimate expectation”
