The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar has asked the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal to nullify the declaration of Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) as President-elect.
The filing was confirmed to Africa Today News, New York by a member of the Atiku Legal Team, Silas Joseph Onu, on Wednesday morning.
This comes hours after the Labour Party (LP) and its candidate, Mr. Peter Obi, had similarly filed a petition at the election petitions tribunal in Abuja, challenging Tinubu’s status as the winner of the February 25, 2023, presidential election.
The petition marked: CA/PEPC/03/2023, has INEC; Tinubu; his running mate, Senator Kashim Shettima, and the APC as the 1st to 4th respondents.
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The petitioners are praying for the tribunal to declare that Tinubu was not duly elected by a majority of the lawful votes cast at the election. They want an order mandating INEC to retrieve the certificate of return issued to the APC candidate and issue a fresh one to Obi.
Obi had formally filed a petition at the Election Petition Tribunal in Abuja, challenging the declaration of Tinubu as the winner of the controversial presidential election
The petition marked: CA/PEPC/03/2023, has the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC); Tinubu; his running mate, Senator Kashim Shettima, and the APC as the 1st to 4th respondents.
The petitioners are praying for the tribunal to declare that Tinubu was not duly elected by a majority of the lawful votes cast at the election. They want an order mandating INEC to retrieve the certificate of return issued to the APC candidate and issue a fresh one to Obi.
The petitioners specifically alleged that at the time of the election, Tinubu was not qualified to contest.