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He said it would, therefore, be wrong for the apex court to admit a fresh evidence at the stage of appeal, adding that Atiku ought to have joined the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, as an interested party in the US proceedings.

The military, through an extraordinary gazette notice, has been ordered to remain on alert across Sri Lanka. President Ranil Wickremesighe issued the gazette notice under the Public Security Ordinance, with effect from 22nd October. The gazette has been renewed every month giving the military

The supreme court has reserved judgment in the appeal filed by Atiku Abubakar challenging the election of President Bola Tinubu....

While INEC, through its lawyer, Mr. Abubakar Mahmoud, SAN, urged the court to reject Atiku’s plea to be allowed to tender the CSU certificate, insisting that the time allowed for hearing of the petition had expired.

Atiku told the apex court that some of the presiding officers that personally handled the BVAS machines at polling units on the election day, had in their testimony before the PEPC, “confirmed the non-transmission of results of the presidential election electronically from the BVAS machines, whereas results of the National Assembly election that held simultaneously, were electronically transmitted without difficulty.

“The court below overlooked that the Respondents failed to disprove the evidence of substantial non-compliance adduced by the petitioners,” the Appellants stated, adding that the panel wrongfully dismissed the issue of double nomination that was raised against Tinubu’s Vice President, Kashim Shettima.

By Harry Awurumibe, Editor, Abuja Bureau Hope rising for the Presidential Candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Mr. Peter Gregory Obi as the Supreme Court of Nigeria has fixed Monday, October 23, 2023 as the day the apex court will hear the appeal lodged by Obi and Labour Party against the Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal

The Supreme Court's registrar, on Thursday, issued the hearing notice for Atiku's, and Obi's appeals challenging President Tinubu's election.

The Special Prosecutor has no mandate under Articles 14(1)(g) and 2, and 18 (1) and (2) of the 1992 Constitution, and the combined effect of Section 69(1) of the Office of the Special Prosecutor Act, 2017 (Act 959) and Regulation 20 of the Office of the Special Prosecutor (Operations) Regulations,…

President Bola Tinubu says Atiku Abubakar and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) are attempting the impossible by trying to get the...