Setback For Atiku As Court Adjourns Hearing Against Tinubu Over Discrepancies
The Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC) sitting in Abuja, on Tuesday, adjourned the hearing of the petition filed by the Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, and his party following improper arrangement of documents by counsel to the petitioners.
At the resumed hearing of the petition on Tuesday, counsel to the petitioners (Atiku Abubakar and PDP), Eyitayo Jegede (SAN) sought the leave of the court to tender certain documents which include, a certified true copy of the notice of discontinuance in a case marked, SC/CV/254/2023.
Lawyard gathered the PDP counsel had tendered INEC’s certified true copy of form EC8E from ten Local Government Areas of Kogi.
The court did not however rule on admittance of the documents tendered from the ten Local Government Areas of Kogi due to improper arrangement of the said documents
Petitioners’ lawyer, therefore, requested that the matter be adjourned to enable him to arrange the documents the petitioners wish to tender before the court.
The respondents did not object to the request for adjournment and the five member-panel of Justices of the court headed by Justice Haruna Tsammani adjourned further hearing of the petition till Wednesday, June 7, 2023.
Atiku Abubakar and his party, in their joint petition marked CA/PEPC/05/2023, which has the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), President Ahmed Bola Tinubu, and the All progressive congress (APC) as first to third respondents, are challenging the outcome of the presidential election, alleging that the election was conducted in gross violation of the Constitution, the Electoral Act and INEC’s guidelines for the conduct of the election.
