The Labour Party, LP, has raised concerns over the Supreme Court’s failure to deliver judgment on the appeal filed by its presidential candidate, Peter Obi.
In a statement released on Tuesday by its National Secretary, Umar Farouk Ibrahim, the party claimed that the apex court only pronounced judgment on the appeal filed by the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.
It can be recalled that on October 26, the Supreme Court dismissed petitions filed by the LP and PDP, seeking to annul the election of President Bola Tinubu of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC.
However, the LP asserted in its statement on Tuesday that after the Presiding Justice, His Lordship John Inyang Okoro JSC, delivered the judgment on PDP’s appeal, he “verbally stated that the decision in the LP appeal would abide by the judgment just delivered in respect of the PDP appeal.”
The party condemned this development as unprecedented and unacceptable.
“The LP finds it very embarrassing and depressing that the Supreme Court would, after hearing the appeal by our party, refuse to deliver any judgment and also fail to provide our party with a copy of whatever it considers to be its decision.
“With every sense of responsibility, the LP believes that the Supreme Court’s conduct is regrettable and unprecedented.
“This constitutes an unmitigated breach of the constitutional right of LP and her candidate to a fair hearing,” the statement added.
