Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) has filed an 18-ground notice of appeal at the Kwara State division of the Appeal Court, in Ilorin, asking the court to set aside the ruling of the governorship election tribunal which dismissed the petition of ACN's Muhammad Dele Bleaker (SAN) and upheld the election of Governor Abdulfatah Ahmed.

Confirming to Daily Trust yesterday, was Rabiu Ajakaye, media aide to the ACN gubernatorial candidate, Mohammad Dele Bleaker, who stated that the notice of appeal, dated November 25 and signed by ACN's team of lawyers led by legal luminary Ebun Siphoned (SAN), avers that the tribunal erred in law in upholding the objections of PDP that ACN pleaded vague averts upon which no evidence could be led.

A statement signed by Ajakaye said that the ACN insists that the position of the law, backed by several authorities is that a party that complains of vague or generic pleading should request for further and better particulars, failing which "he shall be taken to require no further particulars or direction and is stopped from complaining with any alleged vague or general nature of the pleading."

The statement said that the ACN, which petition rests squarely on documentary evidence, also argued that the trial court acted strangely and against the law when it pronounced all the several thousands of documents tendered as inadmissible simply because the INEC officer did not sign them in long hand.

The statement said the party believed the position of the court was strange because none of the respondents, including INEC and the PDP, challenged the authenticity of those documents, which the tribunal itself admitted, had engraved signature of the officer, the date of certification and evidence that they are certified true copies.

The ACN is also asking the appeal court to determine whether the tribunal acted rightly in failing to act on its own finding, after it ordered a recount of the ballot papers used in the disputed areas, that there were at least 21,192 bogus, non-existent votes in the result INEC declared.