By Ken Afor
Renowned Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Robert Clark, has said that the proposed plan by the presidential candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar and Labour Party (LP) Peter Obi to appeal the judgment delivered by the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal (PEPT) would amount to nothing.
Clark expressed this position on Sunday in an interview on Channels Television.
This trails the decision by the Atiku and Obi’s camp to appeal the judgment of the tribunal delivered on Wednesday.
It would be recalled that the five judges led by Justice Haruna Tsammani after addressing all petitions filed by the PDP and LP against President Bola Ahmed Tinubu of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) upheld the election of the president.
To this, Clark in his summation reminisced his decades of experience as regards the unanimous judgment by the tribunal maintained that an appeal on the ruling of the case is unassailable.
According to Clark, “My personal view has been enriched by past experience in the dispensation of justice at the bar.
“I have every belief, and I seriously believe that the unanimous judgment of the Court of Appeal is unassailable, it is as fixed as you can fix anything and I can assure you that if there is an appeal, I doubt whether anything can come out of the appeal.”
He established his position on the fact that the matters presented by the petitioners were addressed without fear or favour.
Clark could not agree more than the position of the PEPT where it concluded that most of the petitions by the PDP, LP and Allied Peoples Movement (APM) could not be substantiated with evidence as they were saying without proof to convince the court.
