PEPC Orders Tinubu, APC, others to file responses to oppositions’ applications, Adjourns till Thursday
The Presidential Election Petition Court in Abuja on Tuesday ordered the All Progressives Congress (APC) and its presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu, to file their responses to all pending applications in the case instituted by the Allied Peoples Movement (APM).
The APM, among other opposition political parties with their presidential candidates, is urging the court to nullify Tinubu’s victory on account of “his non-qualification as a candidate of” the APC.
At a pre-hearing session of the court on Tuesday, after taking submissions from lawyers to parties in the APM’s petition, a five-member panel of the court led by Haruna Tsammani, ordered all parties to file their responses to all pending applications before the next hearing date.
Tsammani adjourned the petition until Thursday for continuation of the pre-hearing session.
Subsequently, Justice Haruna Tsammani has adjourned the petition of Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar to Thursday, May 11.
The tribunal says the fresh motions brought by Tinubu’s legal team seeking to dismiss Atiku’s petition at pre-hearing stage will be entertained on the adjourned date
