The presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Mr. Peter Obi has appealed against the judgement of the Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC), which upheld the victory of the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate, Bola Tinubu.
In his 51-ground notice of appeal, Obi said the Presidential Election Petitions Court erred in law and thereby reached a wrong conclusion when it dismissed the petition he lodged to challenge the outcome of the presidential election.
Filed by his lead counsel, Dr. Livy Uzoukwu, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Obi challenged the decision of the presidential election tribunal, maintaining that the five-member panel of the election petition court, led by Justice Haruna Tsammani, carried out a 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 of inflated in President Tinubu’s favour, and the APC.
Obi also accused the court of erring in law when it relied on paragraph 4(1) (d) (2) and 54 of the First Schedule to the Electoral Act 2022 to strike out paragraphs of his petition.
While accusing the PEPC of breaching his right to fair hearing, Obi insisted that evidence of his witnesses were 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 INEC Result Viewing (IReV) portal.
He further alleges that the lower court ignored his allegation that Certified True Copies (CTC) of documents that INEC issued to his legal team, comprised of 8,123 blurred results that contained blank A4 papers, pictures and images of unknown persons, purporting same to be the CTC of polling units results of the presidential election.
