Atiku Files Suit At Supreme Court Challenging PEPT’s Judgement
The Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar has approached the Supreme Court seeking to overturn the judgment of the Presidential Election Petition Court, which on September 6, confirmed the declaration of Bola Ahmed Tinubu as winner of the 2023 presidential election.
The Nation reported that a five-member panel of the Presidential Election Petition Court led by Haruna Tsammani dismissed Atiku’s petition challenging President Tinubu’s election.
In a notice of appeal predicated on 35 grounds, Atiku through his team of lawyers, led by Chris Uche, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), contended that the PEPC’s judgement committed “grave error and miscarriage of justice” in its legal reasoning by affirming Tinubu as president.
The notice of appeal filed by the former vice president is praying the apex court to set aside the whole findings and decisions of the tribunal on the grounds that they did not represent the true picture of the grounds of his petition.
He urged the court to declare that Tinubu did not secure a majority of lawful votes cast during the presidential election on February 25, 2023.
The PDP presidential candidate argued that the tribunal erred in law when it refused to nullify the presidential election held on February 25 on the grounds of non-compliance with the Electoral Act, 2022, when the evidence before the tribunal, INEC conducted the election based on grave and gross misrepresentation contrary to the principles of the Electoral Act 2022, based on the “doctrine of legitimate expectation”.
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