President Election Court: Atiku, Obi fight on as Tinubu, Buhari, Ganduje hail judgement

<p>Wednesday’s judgement of the Presidential Election Petition Court will not mark the end of the controversies trailing the outcome of the 2023 presidential election.</p>, <p>DAILY POST recalls that the five-man panel, in a final judgement read by Justice Haruna Simon Tsammani, filed by the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Labour Party, LP, and the Allied Peoples Movement, APM.</p>, <p>The Tribunal resolved all the issues against the petitioners in favour of the respondents, President Tinubu, his Vice, Kashim Shettima and the APC.</p>, <p>While the APM is yet to make its line of action known, both the PDP and the LP candidates, Abubakar Atiku and Peter Obi, respectively, have vowed to challenge the judgement at the Supreme Court.</p>, <p>They made their decisions public on Wednesday shortly after the Tribunal pronounced their petitions dismissed.</p>, <p>However, for the All Progressives Congress, APC, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and a former President, Muhammadu Buhari, it was an anticipated victory and a true reflection of the wishes of the people.</p>, <p>Tinubu and his party were all praises for the Tribunal for upholding his election.</p>, <p>But in the camp of the PDP and the LP, it is a glaring miscarriage of justice.</p>, <p>They have both vowed to challenge the judgement at the Supreme Court.</p>, <p>In a bid to ensure quick filing of their appeals at the apex court, Atiku’s lawyer, Chief Chris Uche, SAN, requested the Tribunal to make a copy of the judgement available to him to enable his client to exercise his right of appeal.</p>, <p>He said that the former Vice President has directed that appeal against the decision be filed immediately.</p>, <p>Uche told newsmen that Atiku got judgement at the Tribunal but did not get justice, hence, his decision to go on appeal.</p>, <p>Similarly, Livy Uzoukwu, SAN, the lead counsel to Obi confirmed that his client had directed that the judgement be challenged in the Supreme Court.</p>, <p>He wondered why the Tribunal, which ruled against live telecast of proceedin