ENUGU, Nigeria (VOICE OF NAIJA)- The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Nigeria (CBCN), has condemned the judgement of the 2023 Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal (PEPT), that upheld
the victory of President Bola Tinubu.
The PEPT, on Wednesday last week, trashed the petitions filed by Peter Obi, the Labour Party presidential candidate, and his Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) counterpart, Atiku Abubakar, for lacking in merit.
Obi and Atiku, who rejected the tribunal’s verdict, have resolved to end the matter in the Supreme Court.
Reacting to the controversy surrounding the judgement, the President of the CBCN, Archbishop Lucius Iwejuru Ugorji, said that the tribunal’s verdict fell short of the people’s legitimate expectations of moral and legal standards.
He spoke on Sunday in Abuja while addressing an audience at the opening ceremony of the 2023 Second Plenary Assembly of the Conference.
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According to him, with the move by Obi and Atiku to appeal the judgement at the Supreme Court, the fate of Nigerians has continued to “hang in the balance”.
The Bishop prayed that the Supreme Court Judges would be fair to the parties when delivering their judgement on the petitions.
“As this case moves to the next level, the fate of the country continues to hang in the balance, and the future of democracy in our land stands on the edge of a precipice.
“We pray and hope that the Supreme Court Judges will neither bend the law nor seek to satisfy the whims and caprices of any party.
“We also pray and hope for a day in our nation when all election results will be finally decided at the polling units and not at the court,” he added.