The Presidential Election Petition Tribunal has been urged not to invalidate the presidential election of February 25 by President Bola Tinubu and Vice President Kashim Shettima.
The presidential election should not be cancelled, according to Tinubu and Shettima, despite the dispute surrounding the 25 percent in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).
They did so while pleading with the tribunal to deny the Labour Party’s (LP) and Peter Obi’s appeal. Their lead attorney, Wole Olanipekun, made a concluding statement that included their appeal.
In the speech, Olanipekun called the challengers’ arguments and witness testimony “frivolous, bogus, and based on hearsay.”
He requested that the petition be dismissed since it was completely without merit and substance.
He emphasised that there was no legal basis for the petitioners’ “remote” claim that Tinubu and Shettima’s election should be invalidated because they did not receive 25% or one-quarter of the votes counted in the FCT because the constitutional use of “and” is conjunctive, not disjunctive.
“The appellant woefully failed to understand that judges do not behave like the oracles of life, which are frequently engaged in crystal gazing and would then proclaim a new Oba in succession to a deceased Oba,” the court wrote.
“Judges cannot perform miracles in the handling of civil claims, and at the very least of all manufacture evidence for the purpose of assisting a plaintiff win his case,” he stated.
