PEPC VERDICT: It’s No Retreat, No Surrender As Atiku, Obi Vow To Storm Supreme Court In Fresh Bid To Remove Tinubu As President

While the much awaited verdict of the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal had come and gone, yesterday (Wednesday, September 6, 2023), the Presidential Candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Abubakar Atiku, and the Labour Party (LP), Mr Peter Obi respectively, have said they would appeal the judgment delivered by the Presidential Election Petitions Court (PEPC) at the Supreme Court, Abuja.

The PEPC had affirmed the election of President Bola Tinubu and dismissed the petitions of Obi and Atiku for being unmeritorious and lacking in substance.

Reacting to the judgment shortly after the judgment, counsel to Atiku, Mr Chris Uche SAN, said that his team had requested for a copy of the judgment in order to fast track the process of appeal.

Uche said that his client directed that the appeal against the decision of the court be filed immediately.

The senior lawyer said that the PEPC might have delivered judgment but his client did not get justice in his quest to prove that the Feb. 25 election was marred by malpractices, irregularities and corruption.

In the same vein, the lead counsel to Mr. Peter Obi, Mr Livy Uzoukwu SAN, told newsmen that his client would appeal the judgment at the Supreme Court.

Uzoukwu said it was beyond him why the court had ruled against live broadcast of proceedings at the hearing of his client’s petition only to allow same during the judgment.

Meanwhile, the Chairman of the five-member panel of justices of the court, Justice Haruna Tsammani, told the petitioners that clean copies of the judgments would be released to them on latest T