The Court of Appeal has debunked the news that one of the five-member panel of the Presidential Election Petition Court, Justice Boloukuoromo Ugo, resigned.
This was confirmed by the Secretary of the panel, Josephine Ekperobe.
A verified Twitter user by the name of Umar Sani tweeted on Thursday that, Justice Ugo resigned, because siding with President Bola Tinubu, against those challenging his presidential victory at the court, “would mean the death of Nigeria’s democracy”.
The petitioners, before the petition court seeking to nullify the election of President Bola Tinubu, Peter Obi, Atiku Abubakar, and the Allied Peoples Movement, (APM), alongside the defendants, INEC, Tinubu, Kashim Shettima, and others, have closed their cases, having presented witnesses, and tendered evidence.
The defendants have also filed their final written addresses, asking the court to throw out all the petitions, challenging the election of Tinubu.
The Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Kayode Ariwoola, had on Wednesday, equally debunked the news that he had a telephone conversation with President Tinubu, concerning petitions that seek to sack him from office.
(Editor: Ifeanyi Mark)
