Alhaji Abubakar Atiku, the presidential candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), has taken his legal battle to the Supreme Court, urging it to invalidate the judgment of the Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC) that affirmed Bola Ahmed Tinubu as the winner of the February 25 presidential election, as declared by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).
In the Notice of Appeal submitted to the apex court, Atiku’s argument is built upon 35 grounds, emphasizing that the Election Tribunal, in its judgment led by Chairman Justice Haruna Simon Tsammani, made grave errors and committed a miscarriage of justice in its findings and conclusions concerning the petition challenging Tinubu’s declaration as President by INEC.
Atiku’s lead counsel, Chief Chris Uche, SAN, filed this Notice of Appeal, seeking the Supreme Court’s intervention to set aside the entire findings and conclusions of the Tribunal.
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The basis for this request is the belief that they did not accurately represent the true essence of the grounds of Atiku’s petition.
One of the key contentions put forth by the former Vice President is that the Tribunal erred in law by failing to annul the presidential election held on February 25, 2023, due to non-compliance with the Electoral Act, 2022. Atiku claims that the evidence presented before the Tribunal indicated that INEC conducted the election based on a grave and gross misrepresentation, which contravened the principles of the Electoral Act 2022, alluding to the “doctrine of legitimate expectation.”
