Peter Obi, the Labour Party’s presidential candidate, has appealed President Bola Tinubu’s victory to the Supreme Court.
Through a group of attorneys led by Dr. Livy Uzoukwu, SAN, Obi is pleading with the Supreme Court to overturn Tinubu’s victory in the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal (PEPT) decision on September 6.
On Tuesday, September 19, 2023, the LP and Obi filed a 73-page notice of appeal against the tribunal’s ruling.
Take notice that the Appellants are unhappy with the rulings in PETITION NO: CA/PEPC/03/2023 MR. PETER GREGORY OBI & ANOR. v. INDEPENDENT NATIONAL ELECTORAL COMMISSION & ORS. (consolidated with Election Petition Nos: CA/PEPC/04/2023 and CA/PEPC/05/2023), which are contained in pages 3–327 of the judgment of the Court of Appeal sitting as
We had previously reported that the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate Tinubu was declared the winner of the February 25 presidential election by a five-member PEPT panel headed by Justice Haruna Tsammani.
