The runners-up in Nigeria’s presidential election in February on Tuesday filed an appeal to the Supreme Court to overturn a ruling rejecting a challenge to President Bola Tinubu’s election victory.
Opposition parties had claimed various irregularities, from electoral authorities failing to properly upload results and fraud to Tinubu not meeting constitutional requirements to win the presidency.
According to the appeal ,Atiku Abubakar, the candidate for the People’s Democratic Party, filed the claim on the basis that the earlier judgment had made “a grave miscarriage of justice”.
President Tinubu won with 37 percent of the vote in February, beating Abubakar and Labour Party’s Peter Obi to secure the presidency of Africa’s most populous country.
Through his lawyer, Mr Atiku also faulted the court’s use of “disparaging words” which he said “evinced bias”.
In a similar move, Mr Obi noted that the election court overlooked the facts in his case and failed to consider the weight of evidence he presented, thereby arriving at the wrong conclusion.
No date has been fixed for the hearing of the cases.