The Supreme Court has scheduled a hearing on Monday, October 23 in the appeal filed by the People’s Democratic Party’s presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, seeking to overturn President Bola Tinubu’s election victory.
The Supreme Court will hear Atiku’s plea to introduce new evidence to indicate that President Bola Tinubu submitted a fraudulent certificate to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on the same day.
In a hearing notice sighted by Channels Television on Thursday, the apex court fixed 9am of the date for Atiku’s lawyers and those of President Tinubu to address its panel of seven Justices on whether it has powers to grant the request.
Also billed to address the court on the contentious request are lawyers from the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) who are joint respondents in the motion.
They are to argue and cite relevant laws on whether such request is grantable under the country’s Constitution and the Electoral Act 2022.
The documents Atiku sought to tender are the academic records of Tinubu, which were handed over to him by the Chicago State University on Monday, October 2.
The 32-page documents were released to him on the orders of Judge Nancy Maldonado of the District Court of Illinois, Eastern Division, Illinois, United States of America.