{"id":70175,"date":"2019-10-30T14:39:45","date_gmt":"2019-10-30T13:39:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=70175"},"modified":"2019-10-30T14:39:45","modified_gmt":"2019-10-30T13:39:45","slug":"supreme-court-dismisses-atikus-appeal-says-it-is-lacking-in-merit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/supreme-court-dismisses-atikus-appeal-says-it-is-lacking-in-merit\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court Dismisses Atiku\u2019s Appeal, Says It Is Lacking In Merit"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"gs\" style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; width: 1006px; color: #222222; font-family: Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium;\">\n<div class=\"\">\n<div id=\":od\" class=\"ii gt\" style=\"font-size: 0.875rem; direction: ltr; margin: 8px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative;\">\n<div id=\":oc\" class=\"a3s aXjCH \" style=\"overflow: hidden; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: small; line-height: 1.5; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-size: 14px;\">The Supreme Court has dismissed the appeal filed by the Peoples Democratic Party and its presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, challenging the victory of President Muhammadu Buhari in the February 23, 2019 presidential election.<\/span><\/div>\n<div>\n<p style=\"line-height: 1.445; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 26px;\"><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\">The Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Tanko Muhammad, who led six other members of the apex court\u2019s panel, said after reading all the details of the appeal in two weeks, the Justices found the appeal lacking in merit.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 1.445; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 26px;\"><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\">The decision has therefore put an end to the legal dispute over the election of President Buhari.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 1.445; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 26px;\"><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\">The CJN, who said the reasons for the decision of the court would be made known on a date to be announced, disclosed that he and members of the panel had read all the documents and exhibits filed in the case for two weeks and found the appeal to be lacking in merit.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 1.445; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 26px;\"><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\">The judgement which was unanimously consented to by the other six members of the panel came less than an hour after the court took arguments on the appeal.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"yj6qo\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"yj6qo\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"yj6qo\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"yj6qo\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"hi\" style=\"border-bottom-left-radius: 1px; border-bottom-right-radius: 1px; padding: 0px; width: auto; background: #f2f2f2; margin: 0px;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court has dismissed the appeal filed by the Peoples Democratic Party and its presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, challenging the victory of President Muhammadu Buhari in the February 23,&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":68559,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exclusive"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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