The Spokesperson of Obi-Datti Presidential Campaign Council, Dr Yunusa Tanko, has revealed that Peter Obi’s legal team may file an appeal at the Supreme Court on Tuesday.
Obi is also said to have no plan of changing members of his legal team.
The PEPC had on Wednesday, September 6, 2023, delivered a 12-hour judgment on the appeals arising from the February 25, 2023 presidential election, upholding the election of President Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress.
The presidential candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party and Labour Party, Atiku Abubakar and Peter Obi respectively rejected the court’s judgment, vowing to approach the Supreme Court.
They had 14 days from the day the judgment was delivered to file their appeal at the apex court.
Tanko, alongside National Legal Adviser of LP, Kehinde Edun, told journalists: “I just confirmed that we have not filed the appeal. That will be done between now and Tuesday.
“We are also not seeking to engage or tweak our team of lawyers.
“We have not filed the appeal yet because we are still within the time frame.
“It will be done any moment from now. our legal team is still intact. They are some of our best hands.
“There is no reason to change them since we do not doubt their capabilities.”
Meanwhile, the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Olukayode Ariwoola, is expected to constitute the Supreme Court panel that will hear the appeal arising from the judgment of the Presidential Election Petitions Court latest on Wednesday.
As the 14-day timeline ends on Wednesday, a source at the Supreme Court noted: “There is no information about the panel or the justices that would make up the panel for now. What we know is that members of the panel may be named this week, latest by Wednesday.”
