President Bola Tinubu has requested that the Supreme Court reject the appeal that the opposition party and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate for 2023, Atiku Abubakar, filed.
In a response to Atiku’s notice of appeal, Tinubu—the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate for 2023—stated as much in a document his attorneys filed on Saturday.
Remember that On September 6, the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal denied Atiku’s petition to overturn the results of the presidential election held on February 25.
The former vice president’s petition was dismissed by the tribunal because it was found to be without merit and that he had not provided sufficient evidence to support all of the allegations made in it.
Atiku, however, requested that the Supreme Court set aside the tribunal’s entire set of findings and conclusions in a notice of appeal with 35 grounds that he filed with the court on September 18.
PDP candidate claimed in the appeal that the tribunal’s conclusions were made with “severe errors and gross misrepresentation,” leading to an injustice.
President Tinubu declared that the presidential election petition tribunal was correct in its decision-making process and that his election was validated in response to Apoko’s appeal.
Asserting that the appellants had not produced any evidence to support any of the lower court’s conclusions, the president said that the appellants had failed to substantiate all of their claims and submissions to the tribunal.
Nonetheless, Tinubu prayed for the dismissal of the PDP candidate’s appeal, calling it “abusive in nature.”.
He said: “Neither the appellants have demonstrated any reason why this honourable court should disturb any of the findings of the lower court, which, with all modesty, are rooted in law and a perfect demonstration of scholarship.
“We accordingly urge this honourable court to affirm the decision of the lower court, while dismissing this appeal in its entirety, as same is lacking in merit and bona fide.
“Everything put together or summarized, this appeal is a further demonstration of the abusive nature to which the appellants have subjected court processes. The supreme court is urged to dismiss it.”
