The supreme court has rejected
the plea of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to adopt all its interlocutory
appeals alongside the main appeal against President Muhammadu Buhari’s election
victory.
The apex court rejected the plea
when it began hearing the party’s suit against Buhari’s victory at the
presidential election petition tribunal.
The PDP and Atiku Abubakar, its
presidential candidate, had through Levi Uzoukwu, their lead counsel, asked the
court to allow them adopt all their briefs.
Uzoukwu requested that all
counsels adopt their briefs, both in the main appeal and seven other interlocutory
appeals.
“We apply that all the briefs in
this appeals be adopted so that at the end of the day, this court will take its
decision on the matter,” he said.
But ruling on the request after a
short break, a seven-man panel of the court led by Tanko Muhammad, chief
justice of Nigeria, held that the main appeal covers the interlocutory appeals
as well.
The panel held that the main
appeal covers all the others and therefore, only the main appeal should be
adopted in court.
“All other appeals shall abide by
judgement in SC/1211/19″ (which is the main appeal),” the panel said.
Counsels to Buhari, the All
Progressives Congress (APC) and the Independent National Electoral Commission
(INEC) also opposed Uzoukwu’s submission.
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