Atiku Abubakar, the Peoples Democratic Party’s presidential candidate for the election scheduled for February 25, 2023, will speak at a press conference today in front of a large audience.
This is in response to the Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal dismissing his claim and upholding President Bola Tinubu’s victory.
According to The PUNCH, Atiku and Peter Obi, a representative of the Labour Party, disagreed with the tribunal’s decision from Wednesday confirming Tinubu’s election.
Kehinde Edun, the Labour Party’s legal adviser, vowed to appeal the ruling to the Supreme Court.
Atiku’s lead attorney, Chris Uche, SAN, added that his client had given him the go-ahead to appeal to the Supreme Court.
He said “The judgment has been delivered but we have not received justice. Luckily, the law has given us leverage to go on appeal to the Supreme Court. We have instructions from our clients to go to the Supreme Court. The struggle continues.”
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The PEPT, which convened at 9.40 a.m. in the Court of Appeal, Abuja, declared unanimously that Tinubu had won the February 25 presidential election and dismissed the appeal brought by Atiku, Obi, and their parties as having no substance.
The challenges filed by Atiku and Obi challenging Tinubu’s election as president by the Independent National Electoral Commission on March 1, 2023, were dismissed by the five-member panel, which took turns doing so.
Judge Haruna Tsammani, the tribunal’s chairman, gave the decision with assistance from the other judges on the panel, Stephen Adah, Monsurat Bolaji-Yusuf, Moses Ugo, and Abba Mohammed.
Atiku, a former vice president, and Ambassador Ben Adenauer, the PDP’s acting national chairman, expressed their displeasure with the decision.
The scheduled conference at the NEC Hall, which is on the first floor of the PDP National Headquarters, is scheduled to begin at 2:30 pm.
“Hi Gentlemen of the Press, nice evening,” read the invitation that the party’s national director of publicity addressed to journalists.
“This is to invite you to a press briefing to be addressed by the PDP Presidential Candidate, H.E. Atiku Abubakar, GCON and Acting National Chairman, Ambassador Umar Iliya Damagun.”
