A certified copy of the judgement was not made available by the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal until three days after it was given, according to Atiku Abubakar, the Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP) presidential candidate.
Atiku’s attorneys have not yet received a copy of the ruling.
According to reports, the attorneys formally requested certified true copies from the court on Friday.
Just 14 days remain for the former vice president and his legal team to file an appeal against the PEPC decision with the Supreme Court.
Phrank Shaibu, Atiku’s special assistant for public communications, signed the statement that he made.
The statement said, “By not making available to Atiku Abubakar, Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, the certified true copies of the judgment of Wednesday for its filings at the Supreme Court, the Presidential Election Petition Court, is undermining Atiku’s and Nigerians quest for justice.”
Shaibu reminded the PEPC that some of Atiku’s witnesses’ testimony was excluded from the ruling on Wednesday solely because their statements under oath were submitted after the deadline.
According to him, the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal is aware that Atiku has already missed three days of the 14-day window allotted for filing in their Supreme Court proceedings.
“And now, for all intents and purposes, the same court wants to have Atiku and PDP’s appeal to the Supreme Court disqualified by the reason of time deadline.
“Does the PEPC not understand that the lawyers representing Atiku/PDP need to digest the judgment as contained in the CTC, which represents the authentic pronouncements made in court on Wednesday, in order to formulate its case for filing?” Shaibu queried
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