Presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi has filed an appeal at the Supreme Court, the appeal documents numbering 73 pages registers his discontent on the judgement earlier given by the presidential election petition tribunal court. In his appeal, he stated a wide ranging particulars of error saying
“The Court below overlooked the fact of the Appellants’ pleading that certain facts and documents were captured in a particular pleading by incorporation or reference did not amount to a concession that those facts were not pleaded.
b) Paragraph 15 of the 1* Schedule to the Electoral Act 2022, which the Court below relied upon, wasinapplicable to the issue in contention.
c) The Court below overlooked the fact that by Paragraph 4(5)c) of the First Schedule to the Electoral Act, 2022 (*the First Schedule”), a petitioner such as the Appellants herein may only list documents being relied on at the hearing
ofthe Petition, without frontloading them by way of attachment.
d) The Appellants exercised their option of listing all those documents pleaded in the body of their Petition by incorporation/reference; hence complied with the said paragraph 4(5)(c) of the I” Schedule to the Electoral Act, 2022.
e) A party cannot and should not be penalised for scrupulously complying with both statutory and judicial laws settled in Nigeria.
Earlier today the candidate of the PDP also filed his appeal.
