Shocker! APC Files Appeal Against Buhari’s Tribunal Victory

By Ayodele Oluwafemi

The All Progressives Congress, APC, has filed a cross appeal at the Supreme Court against the judgment of the Presidential Election Tribunal.

The ruling party which won the case at the tribunal, however, is asking the apex court to nullify evidence and witnesses testimony cited by the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in a counter appeal it has lodged at the apex court.

Specifically, the APC wants evidence where the Resident Electoral Commissioner in Cross River State Mr. Mike Igini was quoted on video tape as saying that the results of the 2019 General Election would be transmitted to a server to be removed from the body of evidence considered by the apex court.

The PDP had on Tuesday, filed an appeal against the September 11 Presidential Election Tribunal judgement affirming President Muhammadu Buhari as the winner of the recent Presidential Election.

The PDP and its presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, said the Presidential Election Tribunal panel erred in law when it ruled that President Buhari did not need to submit an actual certificate before INEC as part of documents in his CF001.

The PDP also noted that the tribunal erred when it ruled that the PDP did not  provide sufficient evidence to back its claim that Buhari did not attend a secondary school among other issues.

However, APC, in a counter application filed on Tuesday, asked  the Supreme Court to reconsider the decision of the election tribunal to accept evidence proffered by the prosecution witness numbers 40, 59 and 60.

The witnesses whose appearances the APC is challenging are Mr Abubakar’s spokesperson, Segun Showunmi, whose appearance at the tribunal resulted in the PDP’s presentation of a video evidence containing statements made by an INEC official from Cross River State Mike Igini, who said that INEC had planned to transmit results to a central server.

The ruling party is specifically praying the court to remove at least 42 paragraphs from the PDP’s documents.

The APC counter appeal was brought by its lawyer, Lateef Fagbemi.

The Supreme Court is yet to fix a date for hearing of the appeals.

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