Atiku will win at Tribunal – Uzoukwu

A Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) and Lead Counsel of the Atiku/Obi legal team, Livy Uzoukwu, has said the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the just concluded election, Atiku Abubakar has all the facts to prosecute his case at the tribunal and emerge victorious.
In an interview on Monday after leading other lawyers to file petition on behalf of Alhaji Abubakar at the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal in Abuja.
In a bid to meet up with the 21 days stipulated by section 134 of the Electoral Act, 2010, Uzoukwu, head of the legal team, led other lawyers to submit a petition on behalf of his client on Monday.
The petition which was duly signed by Abubakar, has the PDP as co-petitioner while INEC, APC and President Buhari were joined as respondents.
He expressed optimism that his client would emerge victorious at the tribunal, saying he was convinced that PDP won the presidential election in the first place.
The lawyers are praying the tribunal that their client, Atiku Abubakar be returned “as person who won majority of lawful votes cast at the election”. In an event that the main prayer does not scale through, the lawyers also pushed for an alternative prayer, “that the election be set aside and for the court to order a rerun”. But according to Uzoukwu, “the alternative prayer can only come to play if the court does not agree with us in the main prayer. “But I believe we have substantial facts to prove our case, to prove our entitlement to the main relief. I’m convinced beyond any doubt that Atiku Abubakar won the election”.
Africa Update had reported earlier that The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) had on February 27, declared President Buhari, the flag-bearer of the All Progressives Congress (APC), winner of the presidential election. Buhari polled a total of 15,191,847 votes while Atiku Abubakar got 11,262,978. However, Abubakar and his party, the PDP, were dissatisfied with the conduct of the election and the eventual declaration of Buhari as winner and moved to seek legal redress.