Atiku joins Peter Obi in filing case with tribunal

PDP’s candidate, Atiku and the Labour Party’s candidate, Peter Obi earlier filed a similar petition at the tribunal in Abuja.

Atiku Abubakar, the Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP) nominee for president, has filed a petition with the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal to challenge the declaration of Bola Tinubu, of the All Progressives Congress (APC), as the winner of the election.

Silas Joseph Onu, a member of the Atiku Legal Team, confirmed the submission on Tuesday night.

This comes just after Tinubu’s status as the victor of the presidential election on February 25, 2023, was contested by the Labour Party (LP) and its candidate, Mr. Peter Obi, in a similar appeal at the election petitions tribunal in Abuja.

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.

The petitioners are asking the tribunal to rule that Tinubu did not receive a majority of the valid votes cast in the election, as required by law. They are asking for a court order compelling INEC to take back the certificate of return it had previously given to the APC candidate and give a new one to Obi.

INEC Chairman, Mahmood Yakubu, had on March 1 declared Tinubu president-elect on grounds that his party scored a majority of votes cast at the poll.