The now-constituted Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal (PEPT) will adjudicate on all petitions filed against the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and its Chairman Mahmoud Yakubu, the All Progressives Congress (APC) and disputed winners of the 2023 Presidential Election, President-Elect Bola Ahmed Tinubu and Vice President-Elect, Kassim Shettima.

The INEC on March 1 announced the following results:

Bola Tinubu/APC - 8,794,726 votes
Atiku Abubakar/PDP - 6,984,520 votes
Peter Obi/LP - 6,101,533 votes

Section 285 of the 1999 CFRN empowers the Tribunal to deliver judgement within a finite period.

285(5): An election petition shall be filed within 21 days after the date of the declaration of result of the elections

285(6): An election tribunal shall deliver its judgment in writing within 180 days from the date of the filing of the petition.

In lay terms, judgement must be delivered on or before September 17, 2023.


A PROFILE ON THE JUDGES SITTING AT THE 2023 PEPT

1. Hon. Justice Haruna Simon TSAMMANI
Born on 23rd November 1959, he hails from Tafawa Balewa LGA of Bauchi State.

Tsammani obtained his LL.B degree from the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria in 1982. He attended the Nigerian Law School, Lagos for his BL in 1983.

He was appointed a Judge of the High Court of Bauchi State on 17th September 1998 and later elevated to the Court of Appeal on July 16, 2010.

He served as the Chairman of the three-man panel that granted Obi and Atiku’s motions to serve Tinubu their petitions by substituted means.

He also presided on the VAT case between the Rivers State Govt and the FG.

He prepared the judgement in Ajimobi v Balogun, affirming the election of Kola Balogun as Senator representing Oyo South Senatorial District in 2019.

He is ranked 12th on the Seniority list of the Court of Appeal.

He will serve as Chairman of the Panel.

2. Hon. Justice Stephen Jonah ADAH
Born on 13th June 1957, he hails from Dekina LGA of Kogi State.

Adah obtained his LL.B degree from the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria in 1981. He attended the Nigerian Law School, Lagos for his BL in 1982.

He was appointed a Judge of the Federal High Court on 12th November 1998 and later elevated to the Court of Appeal on November 05, 2012.

He served as a member of the three-man panel that granted Obi and Atiku’s motions to serve Tinubu their petitions by substituted means..

Adah led the panel that affirmed Ifeanyi Ubah as a Senator after his sack over alleged certificate forgery.

He also led the panel that affirmed Valentine Ozigbo as the PDP Guber Candidate for the Anambra Governorship Election.

He is ranked 22nd on the Seniority list of the Court of Appeal.

3. Hon. Justice Mistura Omodere BOLAJI-YUSUF
Born on 07th August 1959, she hails from Oyo West LGA of Oyo State.

Bolaji-Yusuf obtained her LL.B degree from the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife in 1983. She attended the Nigerian Law School the following year for her BL Certificate.

She was appointed a Judge of the High Court of Oyo State on 30th January 1997, and later elevated to the Court of Appeal on March 24, 2014.

She was on the panel that affirmed that Candidates of the Obaseki-faction were the authentic Candidates to participate in the 2023 Elections.

She is ranked 31st on the roll call of the Court of Appeal.

4. Hon. Justice Boloukuoromo Moses UGO

Born on 07th June 1965, he hails from Kolokuma/Opokuma LGA of Bayelsa State.

Ugo obtained his LL.B degree from the University of Calabar in 1989 before proceeding to the Nigerian Law School in Lagos the following year, for his BL Certificate.

He was appointed a Judge of the High Court of Bayelsa State on 21st March 2006, and later elevated to the Court of Appeal on March 24, 2014.

He is ranked 44th on the roll call of the Court of Appeal.

5. Hon. Justice Abba Bello MOHAMMED

Born on 19th February 1961, he hails from Kano State.

Mohammed obtained his LL.B degree from the Institute of Administration, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria in 1984 before proceeding to the Nigerian Law School in Lagos the following year, for his BL Certificate.

He was appointed a Judge of the High Court of the FCT on 15th July 2010, and later elevated to the Court of Appeal on June 28, 2021.

He served as a member of the three-man panel that granted Obi and Atiku’s motions to serve Tinubu their petitions by substituted means..

Mohammed was Chairman of the Nasarawa State Governorship Petitions Tribunal that dismissed the case filed by David Ombugadu against Governor Abdullahi Sule in 2019.

He is ranked 71st of the 76 Judges on the roll call of the Court of Appeal.

Good one fergie001.
There is need to profile them and put all lights on them and their families.

The judiciary must recognize the fact that it is no longer business as usual.
We are not going to allow the usual hanky pankies.
The evidences and facts on the cases are too loud and clear to be ignored. And only the truth will stand. We pray God give you all the boldness to speak and do the right thing so as not to set our country ablaze.

All eyes on the judiciary.

These are the issues on ground.

1. Bola tinubu's drug case and $460,000 USD forfeiture.
2. 25% in FCT.
3. Forged certificate.
4. INEC breaking her laws .
5. Shettima's double nomination.
6. Election rigging.

I’ve been waiting for this.

Let’s see if the judges with Justice Monica are as impartial as her or they are criminals.

Too much extension of date, from here to there, just do this thing once and for all.


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This is the most important moment in Nigeria since independence

Interesting ! INEC have failed Nigerians real time, it turn of the Judiciary!

If Tinubu likes let him buy all of them. He must return that mandate by fire by force. He can run but cannot hide. We cannot be ruled by a drug baron and serial thief. Justice must be served.

Good! Let's see how they will dispense justice in the litany of petitions before them especially on the case of INEC violating it own approved electoral guidelines in

Interesting

Emotional, sympathy, ignorance and affidavits with no solid basis can't sway the judges.

Racoon:
Good! Let's see how they will dispense justice in the litany of petitions before them especially on the case of INEC violating it own approved electoral guidelines in

Except if what INEC violated about their guidelines is in the new electoral act, if not na dust bin petition.

Inec is an independent body which can make decisions on their own. If there proposed guidelines won't work effectively, they have the right to change it as an independent body without consulting any one .

Modified- To those shouting Prof Yakubu said this or that, INEC is called a body for a reason. The decision making lies on the Inec body which Prof Yakubu is part of and the chairman.

Prof Yakubu can't force his opinion on the body. All the decisions was made by the body not Prof Yakubu personal decisions

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It's a season of cash out for Election petition Lawyers.

Good post from barrister fergie001. You are on point with your post here

Useless APC magas be yabbing up and down.

Obi is wasting his time.
Obi is wasting his money.
Obi is wasting his energy.

Awon wasting time magas. Na your time dem dey waste?

Leave person wey dey waste his time to waste it in peace nah.
Your druggie lord has not spent any day after the election without promising he will do this and do that. After election is over oooo. But they were begging him to show up and talk to Nigeria before the election and he refused. I do not blame you guys. I blame some Nigerians who still vote that kind of person. To be victim of scam no dey tire you?

That is how you call us wailers. We are happy to be called wailers

We will not stop Wailing until Nigeria is FREE.
Calling us wailers is really a good music to our ears now. Increase the volume

fergie001:
5. Hon. Justice Abba Bello MOHAMMED

Born on 19th February 1961, he hails from Kano State.

Mohammed obtained his LL.B degree from the Institute of Administration, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria in 1984 before proceeding to the Nigerian Law School in Lagos the following year, for his BL Certificate.

He was appointed a Judge of the High Court of the FCT on 15th July 2010, and later elevated to the Court of Appeal on June 28, 2021.

He served as a member of the three-man panel that granted Obi and Atiku’s motions to serve Tinubu their petitions by substituted means..

Mohammed was Chairman of the Nasarawa State Governorship Petitions Tribunal that dismissed the case files by David Ombugadu against Governor Abdullahi Sule in 2019.

He is ranked 71st of the 76 Judges on the roll call of the Court of Appeal.

No lgbo Judge. Odikwa somehow!



Obi want to drag APC / TINUBU belle for ground first.
Win or without!

Next time if anybody want to rig he will think twice especially at federal level.

That's go to strengthen our democracy.

helinues:


Except if what INEC violated about their guidelines is in the new electoral act, if not na dust bin petition.

Inec is an independent body which can make decisions on their own. If there proposed guidelines won't work effectively, they have right to change it as an independent body without consulting any one

So as an independent body INEC Chairman can decide to carry anybody 's wife to marry since they are ABSOLUTELY INDEPENDENT.

Feintline:
Good one fergie001.
There is need to profile them and put all lights on them.

The judiciary must recognize the fact that it is no longer business as usual.
We are not going to allow the usual hanky pankies.
The evidences and facts on the cases are too loud and clear to be ignored. And only the truth will stand. We pray God give you all the boldness to speak and do the right thing do as not to set the country ablaze.

All eyes on the judiciary.

These are the issues on ground.

1. Bola tinubu's drug case and $460,000 USD forfeiture.
2. 25% in FCT.
3. Forged certificate.
4. INEC breaking her laws .
5. Shettima's double nomination.
6. Election rigging.

Keep deceiving yourself, you already has a biased mind. Only fair judgement to you is for court to declare obi winner, anything outside that, the judgement is not fair and you will begin to abuse the judges from top to bottom. Most of the cases had been determined before, a layman that is conversant with court judgement knows obi can't win and even if there is going to be rerun; obi can't be part of them. So, what i expect you to begin to do now is to begin to gather vocabularies of words to use to abuse the judges, Tinubu, Buhari and Nigeria

Okwyjesus:
So as an independent body INEC Chairman can decide to carry anybody 's wife to marry since they are ABSOLUTELY INDEPENDENT.

My dear just leave that fella. This is why I don't rarely engage these low IQ fellas in any rational intuitive conversation.

helinues:


Except if what INEC violated about their guidelines is in the new electoral act, if not na dust bin petition.

Inec is an independent body which can make decisions on their own. If there proposed guidelines won't work effectively, they have right to change it as an independent body without consulting any one

Goodness!

What a line of argument to hold🤦.

So you are saying that INEC that is supposed to be an unbiased and impartial umpire, has right to unilaterally change the guidelines for the conduct of the election that they have already issued to contesting parties without letting the parties know of the change in rules?

It’s like saying that because the referee is the chief umpire of a football game, he can decide, mid game, that every handball would be punished with a red card in total disregard for the rule of the game that has guided previous football games. Does that make sense to you? And do you think the outcome of such match will stand?

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helinues:
Except if what INEC violated about their guidelines is in the new electoral act, if not na dust bin petition.Inec is an independent body which can make decisions on their own.If there proposed guidelines won't work effectively, they have right to change it as an independent body without consulting any one

Why not allow INEC to explain that to the court why it have to go against the amended and signed electoral Act by itself or are you APC guys INEC spokesmen?

Even INEC itself put out a public announcement to dissociate itself from mischief makers thinking otherwise, yet you are trying with futility as has been the way of APC to fight against electoral reforms and democratic processes in order to defend a fraudulent mandate for the most despicable criminal ever seen on earth.

As the Presidential Election Tribunal begins hearing today, may God grant the court and the judges the will to deliver true judgement according to the true mandate of majority of Nigerians. Amen.

If Tinubu truly won, let his mandate remain with him. (Amen).
If Atiku won instead, let him reclaim his mandate. (Amen).
If Obi won instead, let him reclaim his mandate. (Amen).

Let somebody say a louder AMEN!

sofeo:
That's a real leader.

You can say that again sis....



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QualityShare:
As the Presidential Election Tribunal begins hearing today, may God grant the court and the judges the will to deliver true judgement according to the true mandate of majority of Nigerians. Amen.

If Tinubu truly won, let his mandate remain with him. (Amen).
If Atiku won instead, let him reclaim his mandate. (Amen).
If Obi won instead, let him reclaim his mandate. (Amen).

Let somebody say a louder AMEN!

A POWERFUL AMEN 🙏

Obiedun:
God will bless Bola Ahmed Tinubu the president elect. No gra gra. No fear. Victory is sure.

Amen.
God bless you too Obiedun
Your Obi different from Obi below.
God bless your parents for giving us a King like you.
You are a Blessed Obi.
The greatest Obi ever liveth 😉

obi4eze:

If Tinubu likes let him buy all of them. He must return that mandate by fire by force. He can run but cannot hide. We cannot be ruled by a drug baron and serial thief. Justice must be served.

Obi 4 Eze,
Take your reply below kiddo....

slashthroat:


Why are you hateful towards a man that has not done anything to you? He will be your President for 8 solid years and pick his successor that you will also not like.
Continue bleating yansh go tell you

You even have time for them sef.
Hatred is in them.
Thanks for replying the kid anyways.

We have more for him below....

IPOB/BIAFRA VS TINUBU/YORUBA:
TOLERANCE BECOMING A CRIME.


1. Why do we hate Tinubu?
What for?

2. Tinubu never worked with federal or Eastern Nigeria let alone stealing money from Ndi Igbo.
He never worked as Minister or taken any Federal Appointment!

3. He never joined APGA let alone sabotaging our Party's interest?

4. Tinubu didn't meddle in Igbo internal affairs either!

5. Why do we call him thief?
What did he steal?

6. We call Yoruba "slaves".
We never reflect on what it means to be slaves in the true sense of the word.

7. We are putting mouth in Lagos politics without caution, yet we have a proverb that says it is the foolish housefly that follows the corpse into the grave.

8. Can Yoruba man become an Association or Local Government Chairman in the East? Let us be sincere with ourselves.
Yet, we enjoy all these privileges here including Assembly Membership!

9. Why asking for what we can't give?

10. We are here helping the "slaves" to develop their land. Who then is a slave?
10b. You call their city a no man's land so that we can further be enslaved slaving to develop it, and our generations are wasted gloating over mere privileges.
Who is a slave?
Do we actually think?

11. Can Yoruba tell Okorocha "o to gee" in Owerri?
He doesn't even need it.
He is too intelligent to die for a pot of ofe manu or nothing.

12. After the civil war, for many of us who were old enough to have witnessed it, the Yoruba were the first to open their arms to receive and accept us as we were, crude savages in search for means of survival.
It was regardless of what we equally did to them before and during the civil war. No party to the civil war was innocent!
I also remember not paying any rent among Yoruba guys without a penny for my first 3years in Lagos and another 2 years in Ibadan.

13. Can we survive Yoruba attack in Yoruba land if they actually mean to?
Will an Mbaise man cooperate with the Nsukka or Afikpo, or the Imo with Anambara?

14. If we all decide to relocate at once, Babangida send me home phenomena is still in the memory of some of us who survived the incessant and uncontrollable spate of robbery across the Onitsha bridge.
How many people will want to go in spite of our empty pride?

15. If Yoruba people are as foolish as we foolishly think, why agitating?
How will agitating be to our benefit?

16. Why not "O to gee" in Abia, Enugu or Owerri?

17. Can a man from Aba become a Commissioner or Perm.Sec. in Enugu State Civil Service?
Yet it happened here!
Why not be careful.

18. We adopted APGA and but "wisely" voted PDP.
How was Tinubu our headache.
Was he the cause of our downfall?
Why always blame others for our inabilities and want to take glory for any small thing we think we have done well and even overblow it?

19. We claim we were so creative during the civil war.
Now history.
We also claim every made in Nigeria is from Aba.
But go to Oyo and Osogbo to see what "lazy" mechanics are doing quietly in the automobile industry, yet we make noise that other ethnics are either mumu or lazy except we (alagbara ma mero baba ole; the most hardworking humans who cannot develop their own land unfortunately).

20. Why looking for avoidable problem? Why?

21. It was you in the North being attacked, in Malaysia being killed, in Gabon and Ghana being molested. 99.9% of Nigerians killed in South Africa are of Igbo extraction, and sometimes by fellow 'hardworking' Igbo. Why?

22. We choose Kanu and he dictates to us without consultation with any one of us. They choose Tinubu who becomes a hero among them by bowing to or adopting the choice of their majority.

Why are we angry?
We chose Azikwe and they chose Awolowo.
How are they more mumuish followers than ourselves?
Zik became a President and we gained from it, Awo was only a Premier, but we are only struggling to beat their records in all ramifications including education till today.
How are they mumus?
We chose APGA and they chose APC, why agitating?

Yoruba are yet to say Tinubu is their problem why do we want to die for nothing?
Why working in APGA but planning to collect salaries in APC?

If your Biafra comes, but do we still remember that as Igbo we will automatically become foreigners on the streets of the Lagos we call a no Man's land?

How many of us will actually want to relocate home, should Biafra actualises or if citizenship is on the condition that you relinquish all other citizenship in Africa?

We leave that answer to the individual.
Nwayo nwayo biko unu.

So na di face of pipo wey go soon collect wotowoto bí dis. What a shame.

Solar panel you mean

Just watch....

They are rushing to come and bellyache about none of them being from a certain region!

These guys on the panel should just try and deliver pure undiluted Justice sha! For the sake of every Nigerian's peace of mind going into the new dispensation.