Obi published this on Thursday at a press convention in Onitsha, Anambra Exclaim.
The Labour Birthday party presidential candidate, Peter Obi, has vowed to technique the Supreme Courtroom to contest the electoral victory of Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress, following the verdict of the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal.
Obi published this on Thursday at a press convention in Onitsha, Anambra Exclaim.
He said he disagreed with the court docket’s “reasoning and conclusions” in the judgment it delivered on Wednesday.
The broken-down Anambra Exclaim governor also said that his dazzling team had already been urged to file an charm in opposition to the decision.
Obi said, “The day gone by, 6 September 2023, the Presidential Election Petition Courtroom by some means delivered its prolonged-awaited judgments on the Petitions disturbing the final consequence of the presidential election held on 25 February 2023. This judgment used to be delivered within the statutory timeframe under the extant statutes. We acknowledge the Courtroom’s contributions to due course of and the seeming strive to toughen our democracy.
“As petitioners in this case, we respect the views and rulings of the court docket, but we disagree with the court docket’s reasoning and conclusions in the judgment it delivered. It is a ways my arrangement as a presidential candidate and the arrangement of the Labour Birthday party to downside this judgment by the allege of charm at once, as allowed by the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
“The PEPC has rendered its judgment, but that esteemed body is now not the closing arbiter. The duty now falls on the Supreme Courtroom. I perform know that judgment is now not coterminous with justice. I implore Nigerians to live focused, steadfast, and peaceable; abide by the guideline of legislation, and realize that this topic has now not reached its logical conclusion.
“Our dazzling team has already got our firm instruction to file an charm in opposition to the decision. I shall now not relent in the quest for justice, now not basically for myself but certainly for our teeming supporters in each set aside the country whose mandate to us on the polls used to be regrettably truncated by INEC.
“The strength and price of our democracy live in stable nationwide institutions and our confidence in them. Electoral litigations will be nearly pointless and nonexistent if the Self sustaining Nationwide Electoral Price discharges its statutory capabilities creditably, transparently, and with discernible equity. When that body fails, as it did as of late, thus subverting the need of Nigerian voters, the recourse to the judiciary becomes imperative, as is now the case.
“I thank every Nigerian who has supported our reason and advertising and marketing campaign for a Fresh Nigeria characterised by equity, equity, justice, the guideline of legislation, peace, prosperity, inclusiveness, sustainable boost, and pattern. A Fresh Nigeria is feasible and achievable. I in particular thank our dazzling team, the Labour Birthday party and Obidient Family, and all folks that confirmed up day-to-day for the length of the court docket trials. God bless you all, and God bless the Federal Republic of Nigeria.”
