The Supreme Court is set to commence hearings on the appeal by the presidential candidate of the People’s Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar.
Atiku, who came in second in the election, had approached the presidential election tribunal to nullify the February 25 election, in which the Independent National Electoral Commission declared Bola Tinubu the winner.
Peter Obi of the Labour Party, LP, and the Allied Peoples Movement, APM, had also filed separate appeals at the apex court seeking to nullify the election of President Tinubu.
The tribunal, however, dismissed the petitions for lack of merit.
Dissatisfied with the lower court’s verdict, they filed appeals before the Supreme Court.
Apart from faulting the verdict of the Presidential Election Petition Court, PEPC, which affirmed Tinubu’s election, Atiku also filed for permission to tender a copy of Tinubu’s academic records released by the Chicago State University, USA, which he said showed that he submitted a forged CSU certificate to the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC.
In a notice, the Supreme Court Registrar, Zainab Garba, announced that Atiku’s appeal had been listed for hearing today.
Meanwhile, Special Adviser on Information and Strategy to President Tinubu, Bayo Onanugta, has accused followers of Atiku and Obi of allegedly trying “to stampede the Washington, D.C., court to change its earlier order on the FBI to release documents on President Tinubu’s forfeiture case of 1993.”
