As the Supreme Court gets set to hear appeals seeking to remove President Bola Tinubu from office, the candidate of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, has said that nothing ought to stop the apex court from accepting his fresh evidence.
The 32-page documents were released on the orders of Judge Nancy Maldonado of the District Court of Illinois, Eastern Division, Illinois, United States of America.However, following Atiku’s request to tender the documents, President Tinubu, INEC and the APC raised separate objections wherein they argued that the Supreme Court could not admit the evidence at this stage of the case.
“The parties are agreed that the Constitution is the fons et origo and the grundnorm, and supersedes any other legislation,” he added. “On the other hand, when it came to the next subsection, namely Section 285, they intentionally included and mentioned Court of Appeal. “Subject to the provisions of this Constitution, the Court of Appeal shall, to the exclusion of any other court of law in Nigeria, have original jurisdiction to hear and determine any question as to whether – any person has been validity elected to the office of President or Vice President under this Constitution.”
“An appeal shall lie from decisions of the Court of Appeal to the Supreme Court as of right in the following cases – decisions on any question – whether any person has been validly elected to the office of President or Vice President under this Constitution”.
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