The All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Social Democratic Party (SDP) in Lagos State have applied for leave to appeal against the ruling of the Federal High Court sitting in Lagos that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) must electronically transmit the governorship results tomorrow. and DPRD elections.
Justice PO Lifu has ordered INEC to transmit the election results electronically or digitally, following a suit brought to court by the Labor Party (LP) and its gubernatorial candidate, Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour.
In the suit between the appellants – SDP (and the three chiefs; Olufemi Olaniyi, Christopher Janet and Olatunji Ganiyu) and LP (Rhodes-Vivour and 18 others), the appellants sought an order setting aside the decision of the Federal High Court, Lagos, contained in the judgment issued by Justice Lifu in suit No: FHC/L/CS/470/ 2023, an order allowing the appeal against the court’s decision as contained in the judgment of Judge Lifu, an order rejecting the original summons for lack of merit and incompetent and others so that (s ) as the court may consider appropriate in the circumstances of the appeal.
Also, in a suit filed before the Court of Appeal sitting in Lagos, the APC sought to appeal to the same court as an interested party.
In the suit, the APC requested that the applicant be granted leave to appeal as an interested party against the final decision of the Federal High Court, delivered by Justice Lifu, among others.
An order that provides an exemption from the rules of this court, by allowing and considering the separate filing of the Notice of Appeal (in terms of the proposed notice and reasons) filed in the Registry of the Court of Appeal, instead of the Registry of the court. below, as properly filed and served;
The court’s order departs from the rules of this court that govern the submission of Briefs of Argument and set the appeal to hear only oral arguments;
A constitutional order of the court is to stay the execution of the judgment by Judge Lifu, pending the hearing and determination of the appeal
And any order the court deems fit.