The apex court, in a hearing notice issued to parties in the appeal, said they are to address its panel of seven justices today on whether it has powers to grant the request.
APM, in its appeal, seeks to upturn the judgement of the Presidential Election Petition Court for being incompetent and frivolous in nature. Ume specifically argued that the said notice of preliminary objection filed by the 3rd and 4th respondents only challenged the competence of grounds 1,2,3,5,6 and 7 of the appellant's notice of appeal, thereby accepting grounds 4, 8, 9 and 10 of the notice of appeal as good and competent grounds of appeal.
The appellant said another virus that made 3rd and 4th respondents' notice of preliminary objection incompetent is that"all the legal submissions made in support of the notice of preliminary objection were exclusively in a"written address" attached to the notice and not a word, phrase or sentence was made in the brief of argument in support of the notice."
It equally prayed the Supreme Court to order that Tinubu was not qualified to contest as the presidential candidate of the APC, having violated section 142 of the 1999 constitution. PDP national publicity secretary, Hon Debo Ologunagba, said the party believes that the issues of the February 2023 Presidential election,"the barefaced violation of rules and the laws, the brazen manipulations and falsifications in perversion of our electoral process have put our democracy in a precarious situation."