Mr Peter Obi, the Labour Party’s presidential candidate, has filed 51 grounds of appeal with the Supreme Court, seeking the nullification of the Presidential Election Petition Court’s decision and the election of President Bola Tinubu.
Obi claimed in his notice of appeal that the Presidential Election Petitions Court erred in law and hence reached the incorrect conclusion when it denied his petition to contest the outcome of the presidential election.
He claimed that the Tribunal’s five-member panel, chaired by Justice Haruna Tsammani, committed a miscarriage of justice against him by ruling that he failed to identify voting stations where anomalies occurred during the election.
He further chastised the PEPC for dismissing his complaint because he did not disclose the numbers of votes or scores that were allegedly suppressed or inflated in favor of President Tinubu and the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).
Obi also accused the panel of violating the law when it invoked paragraphs 4(1)(d)(2) and 54 of the First Schedule to the Electoral Act 2022 to strike out sections of his petition.
While accusing the lower court of violating his right to a fair hearing, Obi claimed that his witnesses’ evidence was wrongfully discarded as defective.
He informed the Supreme Court that the panel had wrongfully disregarded his claim that the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, had posted 18, 088 obscured results to its IReV platform.
He also claims that the tribunal ignored his claim that the Certified True Copies of documents that INEC issued to his legal team consisted of 8,123 blurred results that contained blank A4 papers, pictures, and images of unknown people, purporting to be the CTC of presidential election polling unit results.
