, Atiku Abubakar, has filed an appeal at the Supreme Court seeking to nullify the judgement of the Presidential Election Petition Court which affirmed President Bola Tinubu’s victory at the 25 February presidential poll.
The former Nigeria’s Vice President, through his team of lawyers, led by Chris Uche, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria , argued that the PEPC’s judgement occasioned “grave error and miscarriage of justice” in its legal reasoning by upholding Mr Tinubu’s election as president. Atiku’s lawyer referred the Supreme Court to INEC’s sole witness, Lawrence Bayode’s testimony while being cross-examined that the “deployment of the Bimodal Voters Accreditation System and IReV was to guarantee the transparency of the electoral process and the integrity of the results.”
He said the provisions of the section are “clear and unambiguous”, adding that a “literary and and ordinary construction will best define the intention of the framers of the constitution.” “The long and short of all the foregoing is that the objection of the respondents to the witnesses statements…which did not accompany the petition as required by …the First Schedule of the Electoral Act, is hereby sustained and the said witnesses statements, being incompetent are hereby struck out and expunged from the records of this court,” the PEPC had ruled.
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