By Our Correspondent
The Supreme Court will today, Thursday, deliver judgement in the appeals by the Labour Party and its Presidential candidate, Peter Obi and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its candidate, Atiku Abubakar against the ruling of the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal (PEPT) which confirmed the election of Bola Tinubu of the All Peoples Congress, APC as President in the February 25 Presidential election in Nigeria.
The PDP Presidential candidate and his LP counterpart lodged appeals at the apex court challenging the September 6 ruling of the PEPT that upheld Tinubu’s electoral victory.
The judgement date was confirmed by all parties involved on Wednesday.
At its last sitting on Monday, the apex court reserved judgement filed by Atiku and the PDP against the verdict of the Presidential Election Petition Court which affirmed Tinubu’s victory in the February 25 presidential poll.
A seven-member panel of the court, led by Justice Inyang Okoro announced this on Monday after Counsel to parties adopted their briefs of argument and made final submissions.
The apex court also took arguments from lawyers to parties on the motion filed by Atiku to supply fresh evidence on forged documents.
Counsel to Atiku Abubakar, Mr Chris Uche, urged the court to grant the motion and allow their appeal, grant the prayers sought, and disqualify Tinubu.
Counsel to the Respondents, Abubakar Mahmoud for the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Wole Olanipekun for President Tinubu, and Akin Olujinmi for the All Progressives Congress (APC) urged the court to dismiss both the motion and appeal for lacking in merit.
