List Of Judges To Hear Atiku, Obi’s Appeals Against Tinubu‘s Victory

The seven-member panel of the Supreme Court that will hear the appeal in the petitions filed by three presidential candidates challenging the victory of President Bola Tinunu in the February 25 presidential election has been constituted.

The appeal of petitions was filed by the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar; the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi and the Allied Peoples Movement (APM), Chichi Ojei.

The constitution of the panel of justices was made known in the notices signed by Zainab M. Garba in the office of the Registrar, Naija News reports.

The list of members of the panel to sit on the appeals include Justices Musa Dattijo Muhammad, Uwani Musa Abba Aji, Lawal Garba, Helen M. Ogunwumiju, I.N. Saulawa, Tijjani Abubakar and Emmanuel Agim.

The notices for the hearing said by the Order 2 Rule 1(2) of the Supreme Court’s Rules 1985 as amended, the notice is deemed as sufficiently served on the parties.

Recall that Atiku had in his appeal maintained that the Presidential Election Petitions Court erred when they dismissed his petition on the grounds that the petitioners failed to prove allegations of irregularities in the presidential election, 25 per cent requirement in the FCT, $$60,000 forfeiture and failure of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to transmit the results from the polling units to the IREV using BVAS as provided in its laws and guidelines.

In the application by his counsel, Chris Uche (SAN), Atiku also requested leave to file academic records of Tinubu, which he alleged were forged.

On his part, Obi is contending that the tribunal’s refusal of his 18,088 polling units’ blurred results, was a miscarriage of justice.

While Ojei of the APM, in her petition, is contending that Tinubu and his deputy, Kashim Shettima were disqualified on the grounds of invalid nomination for the offices.

But in his replies to the appeals, Tinubu, through his counsel, Wole Olanipekun (SAN), requested the court to hold that Atiku’s petition was an abuse of the court process and lacked merit.

Also through his lawyer, Tinubu described the petition filed by Obi as a jamboree and lacking in merit.