BREAKING: Supreme Court Reserves Judgment In Peter Obi, Labour Party’s Appeal Against Tinubu

The Supreme Court has reserved its judgment in the appeal filed by the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, to challenge the outcome of the presidential election that was held on February 25.

A seven-man panel of the apex court led by Justice Inyang Okoro okayed the matter for judgement, after all the parties adopted their briefs of argument.

While Obi and the LP, through their lawyers led by Dr. Livy Uzoukwu, SAN, urged the court to uphold the appeal and set aside the judgement of the Presidential Election Petition Court, PEPC, that dismissed their petition, the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, President Bola Tinubu and the All Progressives Congress, APC, through their respective lawyers, prayed the court to dismiss the appeal for want of merit.

The panel said it would communicate the judgement date to all the partiesObi, who came third in the election, had in his 51 grounds of appeal, maintained that the PEPC panel erred in law and thereby reached a wrong conclusion when it dismissed his petition.

He alleged that the panel wrongly evaluated the proof of evidence he adduced before it and occasioned a grave miscarriage of justice when it held that he did not specify polling units where irregularities occurred during the election.

Obi and the LP further faulted the PEPC for dismissing their case on the premise that they did not specify the figures of votes or scores that were allegedly suppressed or inflated in favour of President Tinubu and the APC.