Nigeria decides 2023: APC seeks leave to appeal judgment on electronic transmission of guber, state assembly election results

The All Progressives Congress (APC), Lagos state chapter, has applied for leave to appeal the judgment of the federal high court sitting in Lagos that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) should electronically transmit the results of the governorship and state assembly elections scheduled for March 18.

This development came on the heels of the suit brought before the court by the Labour Party (LP) and its governorship candidate, Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour, wherein the presiding judge, Justice P. O. Lifu, ruled that INEC must electronically or digitally transmitted results.

Respondents in the appeal by the APC include LP, Rhodes-Vivour, 40 other chieftains of the party, and INEC.

Accordingly, in the suit filed by its counsels at the appellate court, APC is seeking five reliefs to appeal the judgement of the federal high court.

These reliefs include: “An order granting leave to the applicant to appeal as an interested party against the final decision of the federal high court, delivered by Justice Lifu.

“An order granting a departure from the rules of this court, by permitting and deeming the separate filing of the notice of appeal (in terms of the proposed notice and grounds) filed at the registry of the appeal court, rather than the registry of the court below, as properly filed and served.

“An order of the court granting a departure of rules of this court regulating the filing of briefs of argument and setting the appeal down for hearing on oral argument alone.”

Furthermore, the party asked for a constitutional order stopping the execution of the judgment by Justice Lifu, pending the hearing and determination of the appeal.

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