By Brave Dickson
Supreme Court has fixed Monday, October 23 to hear the appeals that resulted from the judgments of the presidential election petition tribunal.
After the tribunal ruled in favor of President Bola Tinubu, Atiku Abubakar (PDP) and Peter Obi (LP) filed appeals before the Supreme Court to nullify the judgments of the tribunal.
Atiku and Obi are praying for the apex court to fault the judgments of the presidential election petition tribunal and upturn the February 25 presidential election.
An impeccable source who works with the Supreme Court told our correspondent that the apex court will sit on Monday, Oct. 23 to hear the appeal filed to challenge the judgment of the presidential election petition tribunal.
The source further said the sitting date would have been fixed earlier, adding that the recent application of Atiku to add new evidence made the apex court not fix the sitting date earlier.
He said it would amount to not giving Atiku the right to a fair hearing if the apex court refuses to accommodate the new evidence brought by the PDP presidential candidate.
The new evidence is the academic records of Tinubu which were released to Atiku by the Chicago State University, USA in respect of the legal battle between Atiku and Tinubu.
Atiku wants the Supreme Court to cancel the last presidential election and declare him the winner or order a rerun presidential election on the allegation that Tinubu forged the academic certificate he submitted to INEC among others.
Atiku relied his prayers on Order 2, Rule 12(1) of the Supreme Court Rules 1985 and Section 137(1) of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 (as amended), as well as the inherent jurisdiction of the Honourable Court as granted by Section 6(6)(a) of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 (as amended).
