Troubling News For Atiku, Obi As Clark Makes Revelation On Likely Outcome Of Appeal Of Tribunal Judgement

“My personal view has been enriched by past experience in the dispensation of justice at the bar,” the 85-year-old legal luminary said on Channels Television’s Sunday Politics.

“I have every belief, and I seriously believe that the unanimous judgment of the Court of Appeal is unassailable, it is as fixed as you can fix anything and I can assure you that if there is an appeal, I doubt whether anything can come out of the appeal.”

According to legal veteran Robert Clark, all the legal matters brought before the Tribunal by the petitioners have already been settled by the country’s apex court. Clark supports the Tribunal’s view that the petitioners failed to sufficiently prove their case.

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In a marathon 12-hour judgment delivered on Wednesday, the election petitions court dismissed the petitions of the Allied Peoples Movement (APM), the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its candidate Atiku Abubakar, as well as those of the Labour Party (LP) and its presidential candidate Peter Obi.

Led by Justice Haruna Tsammani, the five-member panel not only rejected the combined petitions of the PDP, APM, and LP but also affirmed the victory of President Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the February 25, 2023 presidential election.

The court stated that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) had the discretion to determine the mode of result transmission during the said election.

Furthermore, the Tribunal dismissed Obi and LP’s petitions regarding Tinubu’s 25 per cent votes in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), asserting that Abuja is treated like any other state.

The court pointed out that the Electoral Act of 2022 did not include provisions for electronic result transmission.

Additionally, the Tribunal ruled that the Labour Party and Obi failed to demonstrate that Tinubu had been convicted of money laundering in the United States.

The panel determined that there was no evidence of criminal arrest or conviction against Tinubu presented by the petitioners – Obi and the LP.

Both Atiku and Obi have contested the Tribunal’s decision and intend to pursue legal recourse at the Supreme Court.