Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), on Tuesday, filed 51 grounds of appeal before the Supreme Court seeking the nullification of Judgement of the Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC) and the election of Bola Tinubu.
We look at some of the talking points from Obi’s 51 grounds of appeal:
- Obi in the petition to the Supreme Court insisted that evidence of his witnesses were wrongly dismissed as incompetent.
- He also accused the PEPC 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.
- The LP presidential candidate in his appeal opined the five-member panel of the Tribunal 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.
- Obi further told the Supreme Court that the panel unjustly dismissed his allegation that the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, uploaded 18, 088 blurred results on its IReV portal before it declared Tinubu winner.
- He also 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 favour of Tinubu and the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).