Tinubu Asks Supreme Court To Dismiss Peter Obi’s Appeal –

President Bola Tinubu has petitioned the Supreme Court to dismiss the appeal brought by the Labour Party’s (PDP) presidential candidate for 2023, Peter Obi.

Tinubu, the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate in the 2023 election, stated this in a response to Obi’s notice of appeal submitted on Saturday by his lead counsel, Wole Olanipekun (SAN).

In its decision on September 6, the Presidential Election appeal Tribunal dismissed Obi’s appeal challenging the outcome of the February 25 presidential election.

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According to the tribunal, the former Governor of Anambra State failed to substantiate all of the allegations in his case, resulting in his claim being dismissed for lack of merit.

However, on September 18, the LP flagbearer filed an appeal with the Supreme Court, asking the apex court to overturn the tribunal’s whole findings and conclusions.

In response to Obi’s appeal, President Tinubu told the Supreme Court that the LP candidate’s petition was nothing more than a jamboree that was prosecuted more in the media than in the courtroom.

The petition, according to the President, lacked merit, substance, and good faith and should be dismissed as a waste of time.

He said, “The entire petition was nothing but a jamboree of sorts, which was prosecuted more in the media than in the courtroom and the lower court, being a court of law and not of sentiments, dutifully threw away their petition after a painstaking consideration of same.

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“Unlike previous election petitions over which the Supreme Court had presided and made far-reaching pronouncements on diverse issues, including but not limited to ballot box snatching, vote buying, voters’ intimidation, interference by the military, thuggery, ballot stuffing, violence, disenfranchisement, non-recording of votes in form EC8A, which is the building block or the base of the pyramid, and such other electoral vices, this appeal arising from a dismissed petition, the main grouse of which is that, while the presidential election was peacefully conducted all over the country, and results of elections carefully and accurately recorded in the various form EC8As, some unidentified and unspecified results, even in the appellants’ brief were not uploaded electronically to the IREV portal.

“However, the lower court, appreciating that it is not a court of final instance, proceeded to determine the petition on its merit, while itemising several monumental failures of the petitioners to provide any evidence in support of their much-touted case.

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“While affirming the election and declaration of the 2nd respondent at the referenced presidential election, the lower court also found that the appellants did not prove any of their allegations on the requisite standards of proof.”

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