The Supreme Court has fixed Monday October 23 for hearing of the appeal by the candidate of the People’s Democratic Party Atiku Abubakar, challenging the judgement of the Presidential Election Petitions Court which upheld the victory of APC’s Bola Tinubu
This is contained in a hearing notice sent to the counsel for the respective partieson Thursday
Ahead of the hearing, Atiku had filed additional materials including the recent deposition of the registrar of the Chicago State University, to support his arguments that Tinubu submitted false academic claims in his INEC nomination form
Tinubu’s lawyers on the other hand, had asked the apex court to ignore the submissions of Atiku on grounds the the statutory period for submission of evidence had since closed
The Supreme Court has until November 6, 2023 to give a final judgment on the appeal.
