Tinubu’s Victory: Planned Appeal Against Appeal Court Ruling Exercise In Futility – Clark
● “It is as fixed as you can fix anything”, he says on live TV
By PHC Telegraph
Robert Clark, SAN
“I have every belief, and I seriously believe that the unanimous judgment of the Court of Appeal is unassailable “, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Robert Clark, said on Sunday Politics broadcast by Channels Television.
Clark who was reacting on live television Sunday night said that the decision of the petitioners who lost at the Court of Appeal on Wednesday to approach the Supreme Court is not likely to bear fruit.
“It is as fixed as you can fix anything”, the SAN insisted, “and I can assure you that if there is an appeal, I doubt whether anything can come out of the appeal.”
Expressing serious doubts about the resolve of the petitioners to challenge the judgment which gave victory President Bola Tinubu, Clark remarked, “My personal view has been enriched by past experience in the dispensation of justice at the bar.”
He asserted that the Supreme Court has at one point or the other adjudicated on legal arguments presented to the Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal by the petitioners.
Clark agreed with the Justices who heard the matter that the petitioners were unable to prove their petitions beyond reasonable doubt.
Recall that the election petitions court delivered a 12-hour marathon judgment on Wednesday.
The court threw out the petitions filed by the Allied Peoples Movement (APM) on grounds that it lacked merit.
Similarly, it held that the petitions brought before it by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the Labour Party as well as their flag bearers Atiku Abubakar and Peter Obi were grossly incompetent.
Throwing out the petitions of the three political parties, the court clearly declared President Bola Tinubu as the winner of the February 25, 2023 presidential poll.
The court ruled that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) was at liberty to decide the mode of transmission of election results during the presidential election on February 25, 2023.
It also dismissed the notion that under the constitution that there is a special place occupied by the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), saying that Abuja is like other states.
It noted that the Electoral Act 2022 as amended did not make any specific provision for the electronic transmission of election results.
On the accusation of money laundering alleged against Tinubu at the Tribunal, the five Justices ruled that Obi failed to prove that the President was convicted in the United States.