The All Progressives Congress (APC) has appointed 12 Senior advocates of Nigeria (SANs) to defend Bola Tinubu’s victory in the presidential election petition tribunal.
This action was taken after Atiku Abubakar and other Politicans started endless protest at Abuja yesterday, Monday, to INEC Office for election cancelation.
Lateef Fagbemi leads the SAN team, which also includes Ahmad Usman El-Marzuq, the party’s national legal counsel.
Recall that Tinubu polled 8,794,726 votes to defeat other candidates while Atiku came second with 6,984,520 votes, the candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi, finished the race with 6,101,533. Both Atiku and Obi have rejected the outcome of the election, vowing to challenge the result in court.The legal team consisting of twelve (12) Senior Advocates of Nigeria and the National Legal Adviser of the Party, Ahmad Usman El-Marzuq, Esq., is led by Prince Lateef Fagbemi SAN, a renowned lawyer who has successfully handled various high-profile election matters and other landmark cases.”
Other members of the list are Ahmad Usman El-Marzuq, Sam Ologunorisa, Rotimi Oguneso, Olabisi Soyebo, Gboyega Oyewole, Muritala Abdulrasheed, Aliyu Omezia Saiki, Tajudeen Oladoja, Pius Akubo, Oluseye Opasanya, Suraju Saida and Kazeem Adeniyi.
The party is “confident that the legal team possesses requisite expertise and experience to ensure a successful outcome for the APC in the Presidential Election Petition matters.”
