There is heightened tension over today’s Supreme Court hearing of a motion filed by former Vice President Atiku Abubakar to bring fresh evidence to prove that
President Bola Tinubu submitted a forged certificate to the Independent National Electoral Commission in aid of his qualification for the February 25, 2023 presidential election.
Also, the Allied Peoples Movement urged the Supreme Court to dismiss the objections raised by Tinubu and his deputy, Senator Kashim Shettima.APM, in its appeal, seeks to upturn the judgement of the Presidential Election Petition Court for being incompetent and frivolous in nature. Picking further holes in the notice of preliminary objection, the APM’s lead counsel referred the apex court to the case law in Ayorinde V Kuforiji LPELR -56600 to submit that “the law is trite that where a respondent to an appeal intends to challenge the competence of certain grounds of appeal as contained in the notice of appeal, he shall file a motion on notice and not a notice of preliminary objection as the 3rd and 4th respondents have erroneously done.
In its notice of appeal, marked SC/CV/936/2023, pending before the Supreme Court, APM is seeking an order setting aside the return and declaration of Tinubu as the winner of the February 25 presidential election on the grounds that it was made in violation of section 142 of the 1999 constitution. Meanwhile, the PDP has said that guided by the provisions of the law, the body of evidence, circumstances and facts presented before it, the apex court will deliver justice.
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