All Eyes On Supreme Court As Peter Obi Files 51 Grounds of Appeal Against Tinubu’s Presidency

The Presidential Candidate of the Labour Party in the February 25, 2023 Nigeria Election, Mr. Peter Obi has filed 51 grounds of appeal before the Supreme Court to invalidate the election of President Bola Tinubu.

Mr. Obi, in his appeal, maintained that the Presidential Election Petition Court, PEPC, erred in law and thereby reached a wrong conclusion when it dismissed the petition he lodged to challenge the outcome of the presidential poll that was held on February 25.

He contended among other things that Justice Haruna Tsammani-led five-member panel of the Court of Appeal, wrooccasionedioned a grave miscarriage of justice against him when it held that he did not specify polling units where irregularities occurred during the election.

He further faulted the PEPC for dismissing his case on the premise that he did not specify the figures of votes or scores that were allegedly suppressed in favor of President Tinubu and the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC.

Obi equally accused the Justice Tsammani-led panel of erring in law when it relied on paragraphs 4(1) (d) (2) and 54 of the First Schedule to the Electoral Act 2022 to strike out paragraphs of his petition.

Similarly, while accusing the lower court of breaching his right t to a fair hearing, Obi, insisted that the evidence of his witness was wrongly dismissed as incompetent.

He told the apex court that the panel unjustly dismissed his allegation that the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, uploaded 18, 088 blurred results on its IReV portal.

More so, he alleged that the lower court ignored his allegation that certified true copies of documents that INEC issued to his legal team, comprised of 8, 123 blurred results that contained blank A4 papers, pic,tures and images of unknown persons, purporting same to be the CTC of polling units results of the presidential election.

“The learned justices of the court below erred in law and occasioned a miscarriage of justice when they held and concluded that he failed to establish the allegation of corrupt practices and over-voting,” Obi added.