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 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 that basis, he said the judgement of the PEPC delivered on 6 Septemeber, affirming Mr Tinubu as the duly elected President of Nigeria “is hereby affirmed.” The court held that it lacked the jurisdiction to entertain such evidence that was not tendered before the lower court. Mr Okoro wondered why Atiku sought to tender the fresh evidence when the grounds of his appeal did not raise the issue of certificate forgery against the president.
Source: Law Daily Report (lawdailyreport.net)
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