The supreme court has dismissed
the appeal filed by Atiku Abubakar, presidential candidate of the Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP), against President Muhammadu Buhari’s election victory.
The apex court dismissed the
appeal on Wednesday after hearing Atiku’s suit against Buhari’s victory at the
presidential election petition tribunal.
A seven-man panel of the court
held that the reasons for the judgement would be given on a later date.
Tanko Mohammed, chief justice of
Nigeria (CJN), said after examining the arguments from the parties to the case,
the panel concluded that the appeal lacks merit.
“We have examined the submissions
of parties in this matter and the exhibit adduced and we have come to a
conclusion that this appeal lacks merit, appeal is hereby dismissed,” he said.
Before the final verdict, the
apex court had rejected the plea of the PDP and Atiku to adopt all its
interlocutory appeals alongside the main appeal against Buhari.
The PDP and Atiku Abubakar, its
presidential candidate, had through Levi Uzoukwu, their lead counsel, asked the
court to allow all counsels to adopt their briefs, both in the main appeal and
in 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, the
panel held that the main appeal covers the interlocutory appeals as well.
Atiku and the PDP filed the
appeal before the apex court after the presidential election petition tribunal
dismissed their case for also lacking merit.
Atiku challenged the victory of
Buhari, who was declared winner of the election by the Independent National
Electoral Commission (INEC), on the grounds that he allegedly lacked the
necessary qualifications to contest for president and that the APC candidate
was defeated in the election.
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