Opposition parties have filed an appeal at the Supreme Court challenging the outcome of the tribunal that had upheld President Bola Tinubu’s victory.

Peter Obi and Atiku Abubakar had pointed out various alleged irregularities such as the electoral authorities failing to properly upload results.

Presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi filed an appeal at the Supreme Court, seeking nullification of President Bola Tinubu’s victory.

Obi is also seeking the nullification of a Judgment of the Presidential Election Petition court that upheld Tinubu’s victory.

He stated in his notice of appeal that the Presidential Election Petitions Court made a wrong conclusion in dismissing his petition.

According to him, the five-member panel of the Tribunal led by Justice Haruna Tsammani, did not uphold the rule of law in delivering its verdict.

Obi maintained that he had strong evidence in his petition but his witnesses were wrongly dismissed as incompetent.

While accusing the lower court of breaching his right to a fair hearing, Obi insisted that evidence of his witnesses was wrongly dismissed.

A similar appeal was filed by, Atiku Abubakar, the candidate for the People’s Democratic Party (PDP).

In his appeal notice, Atiku Abubakar claimed that the earlier judgment had made a grave miscarriage of justice.

In the February 2023 elections, Tinubu won with 37 percent of the vote, beating Abubakar and Labour Party’s Peter Obi to become President.

Abubakar had instructed his legal team to take the appeal to the Supreme Court, after a five-judge tribunal confirmed Tinubu’s win on September 7.

This was not the first time for presidential candidates to challenge the election outcome in Nigeria since 1999.

Nigerian elections have often been marred by fraud allegations and usually end up in legal challenges but the Supreme Court has never nullified any election results.