Following his rejection of the verdict of the Presidential Election Petition Court that upheld the victory of President Bola Tinubu in the February 25 presidential election, the presidential candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Abubakar Atiku, has approached the Supreme Court seeking nullification of the tribunal ruling.
In the Notice of Appeal filed before the apex court, the former Vice President, on 35 grounds, opined that the Election Tribunal’s judgment delivered by Justice Haruna Simon Tsammani’s 5-man panel was not only perverse but 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 Election Commission, INEC.
Atiku’s lead counsel, Chief Chris Uche, SAN, through the petition, consequently, asks the Supreme Court to upturn and dismiss the verdicts of the tribunal for lacking locus standi.
The PDP presidential candidate also maintained that the Tribunal erred in extant law for failing to nullify the 2023 presidential election, which was not in tandem with the Electoral Act, 2022.
