The discontented presidential candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP) Alhaji Abubakar Atiku and his counterpart from Labour party, Peter Obi have said that they will contest the Presidential Election Tribunal’s judgment at the Supreme Court.
The decision to contest the Tribunal ruling came shortly after judgement was delivered in the favour of the sitting president, Bola Ahmed Tinubu on Wednesday, September 6 in Abuja.
Shortly after the verdict was given, Atiku’s lawyer, Chief Chris Uche, SAN, requested the Tribunal to make a copy of the judgment available to him in order for his client to exercise his right of appeal at the Supreme court.
According to Uche, the former Vice President has directed that appeal against the decision be filed immediately.
He told newsmen that Atiku got judgment at the Tribunal but did not get justice, hence, his decision to go on appeal.
In a Similar version, Livy Uzoukwu, (SAN) the lead counsel to Obi confirmed that his client had directed that the judgment be challenged at the Supreme Court.
He wondered why the Tribunal which ruled against live telecast of proceedings suddenly allowed live coverage of the judgment.
However, the Chairman of the Tribunal, Justice Haruna Simon Tsammani assured that clean copies of the judgment would be released to them on Thursday to enable them proceed on their mission at the Supreme court.