Atiku and Obi’s appeal will result in anything – Robert Clark

Clark agreed with the Tribunal that the petitioners had not shown their claims incontrovertibly.

According to Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Robert Clark, nothing may result from the petitioners’ appeal of the Presidential Election Petitions Court’s ruling on Wednesday even though they have sworn to go to the Supreme Court.

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

The unanimous decision of the Court of Appeal is unassailable, as fixed as you can fix anything, and I can guarantee you that if there is an appeal, I really doubt that anything will come of it.

The seasoned lawyer claimed that the supreme court of the nation had already rendered decisions on all of the legal issues that the petitioners had presented to the Tribunal.

Clark agreed with the Tribunal that the petitioners had not shown their claims incontrovertibly.

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

The five-member panel, presided over by Justice Haruna Tsammani, not only rejected the PDP, APM, and LP parties’ joint appeals, but it also unequivocally reaffirmed President Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) as the winner of the February 25, 2023 presidential election.

In this group photo, Atiku Abubakar (R), Bola Tinubu (C), and Peter Obi (L) are all visible.

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) was granted discretion by the court to choose how election results will be communicated on February 25, 2023, during the presidential election.

The Tribunal also rejected the challenges filed by Obi and LP over Tinubu’s 25% support in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), stating that Abuja is similar to other states.

The court ruled that there was no provision in the Electoral Act of 2022 for the electronic transmission of election results.

The Tribunal further decided that the Labour Party Obi had failed to establish Tinubu’s conviction for money laundering in the US.

The petitioners, Obi and the LP, were unsuccessful in establishing any criminal arrest or conviction records against Tinubu, according to the panel.

Both Atiku and Obi have declared their intention to appeal the Tribunal’s ruling to the Supreme Court after rejecting it.