(Listing of High 17 Emerges) Checkout 50 Lawyers To Defend Tinubu’s Presidential Victory

Following the Scandal, rejection of the February 25th presidential election in Nigeria, Wole Olanipekun and 49 other lawyers have offered to defend the victory of the president-elect, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, at the presidential election tribunal.

Candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, and the Labour Party (LP),.

Peter Obi, are not happy with the declaration of the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate as winner of the February 25 poll, The Nation Newspaper reports.

Tinubu got 8,794,726 votes to beat Atiku and Obi to the second and third positions with 6,984,520 and 6,101,533 scores, respectively.

However, some lawyers have signified their interest in defending Tinubu’s mandate at the court and are currently awaiting Atiku and Obi’s petition.

Some of the senior lawyers defending Tinubu’s mandate are:

1. Wole Olanipekun
2. Akin Olujimi
3. Yusuf Ali,
4. Lateef Fagbemi
5. A.U. Mustapha
6. Ahmed Raji
7. Abiodun Owonikoko
8. Kemi Pinheiro
9. Niyi Akintola
10. H.M. Liman
11. Taiwo Osipitan
12. Babatunde Ogala
13. Roland Otaru
14. James Onoja
15. Muiz Banire
16. Olusola Oke
17. Mohammed Abubakar.