The presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in the last election, Peter Obi, has filed 51 grounds of appeal at the Supreme Court.
The former Anambra State governor cited dissatisfaction with the ruling of the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal, which dismissed its case.
He maintained that the five-member panel of the Tribunal led by Justice Haruna Tsammani, carried out a miscarriage of justice against him, when it held that he did not specify polling units where irregularities occurred during the election.
He further faulted the PEPC for dismissing his case on the premise that he did not specify the figures of votes or scores that were allegedly suppressed of inflated in favour of President Tinubu and the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).
Obi also accused the panel of erring in law when it relied on paragraph 4(1) (d) (2) and 54 of the First Schedule to the Electoral Act 2022 to strike out paragraphs of his petition.
While accusing the lower court of breaching his right to fair hearing, Obi insisted that evidence of his witnesses were wrongly dismissed as incompetent.
He told the apex court that the panel unjustly dismissed his allegation that the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, uploaded 18, 088 blurred results on its IReV portal.
He further alleges that the tribunal ignored his allegation that Certified True Copies of documents that INEC issued to his legal team, comprised of 8, 123 blurred results that contained blank A4 papers, pictures and images of unknown persons, purporting same to be the CTC of polling units results of the presidential election
Recall that Obi had approached the Tribunal, seeking to be declared the winner of the February 25 Presidential Election
The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, had declared Bola Tinubu, the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, the winner of the polls.
Peter Obi and Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, however, are challenging the declaration of INEC in court.
The tribunal had upheld the victory of Bola Tinubu, with both Obi and Atiku vowing to seek justice at the apex court.
But Peter Obi has now filed his petition at the Supreme Court
