President Bola Tinubu has asked the Supreme Court to reject the application filed by Atiku Abubakar, seeking to introduce fresh evidence in his appeal of the judgment of the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal.
…The PDP candidate had filed an appeal before the apex court on September 18, 2023, but no date has been fixed for hearing the appeal.
In a response to the main appeal filed on Saturday, President Tinubu said the allegation of certificate forgery was not introduced in Abubakar’s petition at the tribunal.
He said the tribunal was right to strike out some paragraphs of the petitioners’ replies wherein they tried to introduce new issues (including that of certificate forgery) which were not contained in the main petition.
The President said Atiku’s application, which was granted at the US Court, was alien to the pending appeal before the Supreme Court and does not arise from the record or the judgment of the tribunal.
Tinubu, who was the 2023 presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), added that the entire appeal lacks merit and should be dismissed.
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