It would also be reassuring if the Supreme Court grants legal protection to the technological safeguards that INEC spent billions to acquire.
The panel was silent on how the president’s manifest perjury should be remedied, especially as the Nigerian Constitution forbids making false submissions to the electoral office.
Political opponents and civic groups have condemned the ruling of a five-member Appeal Court panel, led by Haruna Simon Tsamani, as riddled with blatant injustice.
The opposition party said its next move would be made public soon.
The question has become central as the panel receives final arguments from parties in the election petitions ahead of its final judgement due in a few weeks.
But at the resumption of the tribunal, INEC’s lawyer A.B. Mahmoud sought the adjournment because the commission’s witnesses were unavailable.
“Today is my best day. Today, I’m so happy that I’m an elected member seeing my president (Tinubu) talking. In fact, I’ve never known that this man is so intelligent,”
JUSUN, with over 120,000 members, is the latest union from a critical sector to join the budding industrial action led by the NLC.
In a unanimous ruling, the court held that the application has no basis in any known law or judicial procedure.
“We don’t want to be put under additional pressure of cameras beaming in our faces,” INEC said.
