The Supreme Court has dismissed the appeal filed by the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party , Atiku Abubakar, to challenge President Bola Tinubu’s election.
The presiding justice of the panel, Inyang Okoro, who read the lead judgement, struck out the allegation by Atiku that failure to promptly upload the polling unit results of the election to IReV amounted to non-compliance with the provisions of the Electoral Act, thus, invalidating the election. The court also held that Atiku failed to prove his allegation of widespread rigging during the election or that he won the election
“On the whole, having resolved all the issues against the appellant, I hold that there is no merit in this appeal and it hereby dismissed,” Mr Okoro said. The fresh evidence was a deposition of the registrar of Chicago State University on the academic records of Mr Tinubu. Atiku had obtained the document after winning a legal case in a US court which compelled the unviversity to release Mr Tinubu’s academic records to Atiku to prove allegation of certificate forgery against Mr Tinubu.
According to Mr Okoro, as of the time Atiku brought the document, the trial Presidential Election Petition Court had lost jurisdiction to hear Atiku’s petition challenging Mr Tinubu’s election. He added that the Supreme Court did not have the power to accept and act on the evidence which the lower court did not admit and act on.
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