Presdiential Election: Atiku, Obi, Two Others File Petition To Nullify Tinubu's Victory

 

Atiku, Obi and two other presidential candidates on Tuesday approached the Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal in Abuja with separate petitions, seeking the nullification of the declaration of Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress as winner of the February 25 presidential poll.

The petitioners, seeking nullification of Tinubu’s emergence as president-elect as Alhaji Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP); Peter Obi of Labour Party (LP); Solomon Okangbuan of Action Alliance (AA) and Allied People’s Movement’s (APM) Chichi Ojei.

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AA’s petition was contained in suit number CA/PEPC/01/2023, while that of APM was CA/PEPC/03/2023, and that of LP was marked CA/PEPC/04/2023.

Meanwhile,Obi, yesterday, filed the petition to challenge the process leading to the outcome of the presidential Election held on February 28,2023.

Atiku, in the petition, marked: CA/PEPC/05/2023, which he lodged before the Presidential  Election Petition Court, PEPC, sitting at the Abuja Division of the Court of Appeal, applied for the withdrawal of the Certificate of Return that was issued to Tinubu by the Independent National Electoral Commision, INEC.

He maintained that the declaration of Tinubu as the winner of the presidential election was “Invalid by reason of non-compliance with the provisions of the Electoral Act,2022”.

Atiku, through his team of lawyers led by Mr Joe Kyari Gadzama, SAN, further argued that Tinubu’s election was invalid by reason of corrupt practice.

Meanwhile, A member of Atiku’s legal team, Silas Onu, confirmed the filing of the petition to Channels TV on Tuesday.

The Action Alliance and its presidential candidate, Solomon Okangbuan, and Allied People’s Movement and its presidential candidate, Princess Chichi ojei, have also lodged separate petitions before the court.

The AA claimed that its candidate was excluded, based on which the election should be voided.

On its part, the APM claimed that Tinubu was, at the time of the election, not qualified to contest the election by virtue of the provisions off sections 131(C) and 142 of the constitution and section 35 of the Electoral Act 2022.