The Supreme Court of Nigeria has fixed October 23 to commence the hearing of a post-tribunal appeal filed by Atiku Abubakar against the electoral victory of President Bola Tinubu.

Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is contesting the judgement of the Presidential Election Petition Court which upheld the announcement of Tinubu as the winner of the 2023 presidential election.

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The apex court served hearing notices on the respective parties today. Abubakar and the PDP are the appellants while Tinubu, Kashim Shettima and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) are the respondents respectively.

Abubakar’s latest court filing seeks to dislodge the tribunal’s verdict of September 6 in which the court held that he failed to discharge the onus of proof on him and dismissed his petition accordingly.

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In the last days of the tribunal proceedings, Abubakar had instituted a subpoena action in the United States of America against Chicago State University, Tinubu’s alma mater, to obtain the president’s academic records for use in Nigeria.

He accused Tinubu of making use of a forged diploma to contest for the election. Although the CSU’s leadership confirmed that the president attended and graduated from the institution. But the discrepancies about his date of birth, year of graduation, among other issues, remain controversial.

The PDP presidential candidate returned to Nigeria with some of the records he sought for and now intends to make them part of his arguments before the apex court.

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He has filed a separate application to the court to adduce the evidence, having not been previously adduced during the tribunal hearings, so as to have the Supreme Court admit them in evidence.

As permitted by the law, the Supreme Court, known as a court of finality, has 60 days to review the appeal and pass its verdict.