The Supreme Court of Nigeria has dismissed the appeal of Mr Peter Obi and the Labour Party filed against the election of President Bola Tinubu.
TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) reports the Supreme Court dismissed Peter Obi’s appeal in line with the lead judgement delivered by Justice Inyang Okoro on Thursday.
“In this appeal, we had during conference noticed that issues numbers one, two, three, five, six and seven in this appeal have been dealt with in Atiku’s appeal.
“It is the decision of this court that these issues shall abide with the outcome of the issues as resolved in Atiku’s appeal mutatis mutandis,” Justice Okoro said.
On the matter of double nomination, the Supreme Court ruled that the appellant should not have brought the matter before the apex court in the first place.
“As for issue number four, which has to do with double nomination, which was not in Atiku’s appeal, it is the view of this court that this issue having been dealt with by this court, this court cannot allow this matter to be re-litigated in this very court.
“There must be an end to litigation. For us to sit down now and talk about when this man resigned or did not resigned, we are not going to do it again. This matter ought not to have come here.
“If you read the judgement of the lower court, they mentioned it that Supreme Court has settled this matter. That should have been the end.
“You now bring this issue of double nomination for us to sit on it and write another judgement, this is not how it should be. This appeal lacks merit and is hereby dismissed,” Justice Okoro ruled.
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