Obi, Atiku to challenge Presidential Election Petition Court’s judgment

The senior lawyer said that the PEPC might have delivered judgment but his client did not get justice in his quest to prove that the Feb. 25 election was marred by malpractices, irregularities and corruption.

Obi, atiku to challenge presidential election petition court’s judgmentThe Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Abubakar Atiku, and that of the Labour Party (LP), Mr Peter Obi, have said that they would appeal the judgment delivered by the Presidential Election Petitions Court (PEPC) at the Supreme Court.

BRANDPOWER reports that the PEPC, on Wednesday in Abuja, affirmed the election of President Bola Tinubu and dismissed the petitions of Obi and Atiku for being unmeritorious and lacking in substance.

Speaking to newsmen shortly after the judgment, counsel to Atiku, Mr Chris Uche SAN, said that his team had requested for a copy of the judgment in order to fast track the process of appeal.

Uche said that his client directed that the appeal against the decision of the court be filed immediately.

The senior lawyer said that the PEPC might have delivered judgment but his client did not get justice in his quest to prove that the Feb. 25 election was marred by malpractices, irregularities and corruption.

In the same vein, counsel to Obi, Mr Livy Uzoukwu SAN, told newsmen that his client would appeal the judgment at the Supreme Court.

Uzoukwu said it was beyond him why the court had ruled against live broadcast of proceedings at the hearing of his client’s petition only to allow same during the judgment.

The Chairman of the five-member panel of justices of the court, Justice Haruna Tsammani, told the petitioners that clean copies of the judgments would be released to them on latest Thursday.

Labour Party rejects the PEPC Judgement
Meanwhile the labour Party has rejected the judgement of the PEPT upholding Bola Tinubu’s election as President and dismissing their petition.
They med their position known in a release immediately after the pronouncement of the judgement. Below is a fill text of their statement:
“The Labour Party watched with dismay and trepidation the dismissal of petitions by the five-man panel of the Presidential Election Petition Court led by Justice Haruna Tsammani today and we reject the outcome of the judgment in its entirety because justice was not served and it did not reflect the law and the desire of the people.
Nigerians were witnesses to the electoral robbery that took place on February 25, 2023, which was globally condemned but the Tribunal in its wisdom refused to accept the obvious. What is at stake is democracy and we will not relent until the people will prevail.
We salute the doggedness of our team of lawyers who fearlessly exposed the wrath in our system. We can only weep for democracy in Nigeria but we refuse to give up on Nigeria.
Details of the party’s position will be presented after consultation with our lawyers after the Certified True Copy of the judgement is made available to us.
We urge all lovers of democracy to remain focused and hopeful because a new Nigeria is possible.”

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