President Bola Tinubu has asked the Supreme Court to reject the application by Atiku Abubakar seeking to introduce fresh evidence in his appeal of the judgment of the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal.
President Bola Tinubu has asked the Supreme Court to reject the application by Atiku Abubakar seeking to introduce fresh evidence in his appeal of the judgment of the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal.
Abubakar, who was the Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the 2023 general elections, had alleged that President Tinubu’s academic records were fraught
with discrepancies and forgeries.
In a response to the main appeal however, President Tinubu said the allegation of certificate forgery was not introduced in Abubakar’s petition at the tribunal.
He said the tribunal was right to strike out some paragraphs of the petitioners’ replies wherein they tried to introduce new issues (including that of certificate forgery) which were not contained in the main petition.
President Tinubu said Atiku’s application which was granted at the US court was alien to the pending appeal before the Supreme Court and does not arise from the record or the judgment of the tribunal.
