The Presidential Election Petition Court, (PEPC) has affirmed the election of President Bola Tinubu.
The court dismissed the petitions filed by Mr Peter Obi of Labour Party and his Party and Alhaji Atiku Abubakar and the Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP).
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Delivering the lead judgment, Chairman of the five-member panel of justices, Justice Haruna Tsammani said that the petitioners had failed to prove their allegations beyond reasonable doubts.
Justice Tsammani held that the petitions, lacking in merit, were consequently dismissed.
He also ruled that all parties would bear their respective costs.
The court in the substantive judgement delivered by justice Haruna Tsammani, resolved the four issues raised in favour of the respondents.
He held that the petitioners failed to provide the necessary facts to prove all their allegations.
He held that the petitioners failed to call agents who are on ground at the various polling units.
On the lawful valid votes, the court held that such allegations was made but no other election result was provided.
” It is settled that before a party can claim that a crime was committed such Party must proof it beyond respondents doubt
” All issues raised been resolved against the petitioners, the petitions therefore, lack merit.
“Having found the three petitions to be devoid of merit, the petitions are hereby dismissed.”
The three petitions were by the Allied Peoples Movement (APM), the Presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Mr Peter Obi and his party, the Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar and his party.
Meanwhile, the Presidential election tribunal judgment is the longest in the history of Nigeria. It started at about 9.25 am and it’s still on as at the time of this post at 9.35 pm, according to lawyer and rights activist, Richard Akinnola.
The first record was that of the treasonable felony judgment of Chief Obafemi Awolowo and others on September 11, 1962 by Justice George Sodeinde Sowemimo of Lagos High court. It lasted from 9.30am to 5.30 pm (eight hours).
The record was broken on June 16, 2021 when a Lagos High court sentenced a former Managing Director of Bank PHB, Francis Atuche to six years imprisonment for stealing N25.7 billion belonging to the bank.
It was a 12-hour judgment by Justice Lateefat Okunnu which began at 9.12am and ended at 9.21pm.
However, the only difference in respect of today’s judgment and the previous ones is that this is an appellate judgment involving five justices in respect of three different cases.
