Labour Party, Obi, Atiku reject presidential court's judgement, head to Supreme Court

counterpart, Peter Obi, rejected Wednesday’s court judgement declaring Bola Tinubu as duly elected Nigeria’s president.

The five-member panel of the court, led by Haruna Tsammani, in a unanimous ruling on Wednesday, dismissed the petitions of the opposition candidates.The court equally dismissed the third petition filed by a political party, the Allied Peoples Movement , for being unmeritorious. “The Labour Party watched with dismay and trepidation the dismissal of petitions by the five-person 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.

Addressing journalists shortly after the verdict, which lasted 13 hours, Atiku’s lead lawyer, Chris Uche, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria , said he had already got his client’s instruction to appeal the decision to the Supreme Court.In the same vein, Mr Obi’s lead counsel, Livy Uzoukwu, a SAN, expressed the Labour Party’s presidential candidate’s displeasure over the court decision.

The panel had announced that the certified true copy of the judgement would be made available to all the parties.

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