The Supreme Court will on Thursday October 26, settle the legal dispute that has been trailing the presidential election that was held in the country on February 25.
Though five petitions were initially entered against the declaration of President Bola Tinubu of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, as the winner of the presidential contest that involved 17 candidates, however, only three of the petitions made it to the apex court.
Whereas two of the petitions were withdrawn before they could even be heard by the Presidential Election Petition Court, PEPC, that held its proceedings at the Abuja Division of the Court of Appeal, of the three petitions that were entered at the Supreme Court, only two of them made it to the last lap of the litigation.
A seven-man panel of the apex court had last Monday, dismissed the case the Allied Peoples Movement, APM, instituted to nullify President Tinubu’s election victory, after the party reluctantly withdrew its appeal which the panel insisted was academic and of no useful legal purpose.
Consequently, the surviving appeals were the ones filed by a former Vice President and candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, as well as his counterpart in the Labour Party, LP, Mr. Peter Obi.
The apex court reserved the appeals for judgement after all the parties adopted their final briefs of argument past Monday.
In the meantime Labour Party has expressed confidence that Thursdays Supreme Court judgement would be in its favour.
The party disclosed this through its national legal officer, Kehinde Edun.
Edun noted that its presidential candidate in the February 25, 2023 election, Mr Peter Obi would be declared winner.
In his words: “We are expecting victory because that is what justice demands; that is what Nigerians want. We will not lose hope. We have presented our case before the court.
“We are confident of victory for the Labour Party and Nigerians. We know that there will be jubilation everywhere in Nigeria.”
Atiku and Obi are challenging the declaration by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, that Tinubu of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, was the valid winner of the presidential election held on February 25.
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