Tinubu Reveals Why Supreme Court Should Throw Out Atiku’s Petition Against Him

By Babatunde Solanke

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu  of the ruling All Progressive Congress(APC) has told the Supreme Court that the petition by the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party(PDP) against the February 25 election it is irritating, vague, unwarranted , has no known focus or destination and was a mere blockbuster with thrilling suspense and hide-and-seek.

Based on all these, the President has now asked the Apex Court to throw away the appeal filed against the September 6 judgment of the Presidential Election Petition Court.

Tinubu, in his response to Atiku’s appeal filed by Wole Olanipekun SAN on his behalf, specifically claimed the case of the former Vice President has no legs to stand upon and as well have no wings to fly to the direction being sought by the PDP presidential candidate.

Tinubu claimed that he defeated Atiku and PDP in virtually all the states of the federation, prompting the Independent National Electoral Commission INEC to declare him winner after the lawful collations of the election results in the presence of agents of the appellant.

The President also faulted the entire allegations of malpractices, noncompliance with electoral laws and non-qualifications raised against him by Atiku, stating that the lower court did not find merits in any of the allegations, hence, they were dismissed.

The President also challenged the competence of Atiku’s petition, insisting that what the PDP presidential candidate dressed as statements of facts were mere hearsays with no probate values.

According to Tinubu,Tinubu, while Atiku claimed to have won the majority of the lawful votes cast at the election, he never gave the figure he scored at the election.

He claimed that what Atiku termed an expert report, was a mere worthless paper having been produced outside the period of the time stipulated by law, making it inadmissible by any court of law.

Tinubu drew the attention of the Supreme Court to the admission of Atiku’s witnesses that the election was free and fair except for the inability of INEC to transmit the results electorally as earlier promised.

The President insisted that the non-transmission of election results electronically did not violate any law because the decision to use the electronic system was just a promise by the electoral body.

Meanwhile, Tinubu’s reply is completely silent on the fresh evidence claimed to have been procured by Atiku from the Chicago State University.

At the time of this report, the Supreme Court has not fixed a date for the hearing of the appeal marked SC/CS/935/2023.