The Labour Party (LP) has claimed that the Supreme Court did not provide a verdict on the appeal made by their presidential candidate, Peter Obi.
In a statement released on Tuesday by the LP’s National Secretary, Umar Farouk Ibrahim, it was stated that the apex court only delivered a judgment on the appeal made by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
It is worth noting that on October 26, the Supreme Court rejected the petitions submitted by the LP and PDP, which aimed to invalidate the election of President Bola Tinubu from the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).
The LP stated on Tuesday that after the Presiding Justice, His Lordship John Inyang Okoro JSC, read the judgment on PDP’s appeal and “verbally stated that the decision in the LP appeal would abide by the judgment just delivered in respect of the PDP appeal”.
The party finds this situation to be unprecedented and unacceptable.
“The LP finds it very embarrassing and depressing that the Supreme Court would, after hearing the appeal by our party, refuse to deliver any judgment and also fail to avail our party of any copy of whatever it considers to be its decision.
“With every sense of responsibility, the LP believes that the Supreme Court’s conduct is regrettable and unprecedented.
“This constitutes an unmitigated breach of the constitutional right of LP and her candidate to a fair hearing”, the statement added.
