Nigerian Presidential Election Tribunal denies scheduling hearing on Peter Obi, Atiku’s petitions against Tinubu on September 16

The Presidential Election Tribunal in Abuja stated that it has not yet set a timetable for delivering its decisions on the several petitions contesting the election of President Bola Tinubu.

When responding to a widely circulated report that the Tribunal had set September 16, 2023, as the judgment date for Atiku Abubakar, the Peoples Democratic Party, Peter Obi, and the Labor Party’s case against Bola Tinubu, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Kashim Shettima, and the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Barrister Josephine J. Ekperobe, Secretary of the PEPC panel, confirmed this to THE WHISTLER.

Online users were very engaged with the report, especially on X (previously Twitter).

For instance, Charles Chukwuemeka Oputa, often known as Charly Boy, a well-known activist and singer, shared the assertion on his verified X profile.

“OBIDIENTS ARE U Ready?,” he wrote. Peter Obi and the Labour Party’s case against Bola Tinubu, INEC, Shettima, and the APC, as well as Atiku’s case against the APC, INEC, and Tinubu in the PDP, have been scheduled for decision on September 16, 2023, according to the Presidency Election Petition Tribunal (PEPT).

But in an interview with THE WHISTLER, Ekperobe refuted the claim that the Tribunal had set September 16, 2023, as the day of judgment.

The official answered THE WHISTLER’s question, “No date yet.”

The Presidential Election Petition Tribunal consolidated the petitions submitted by the different political parties in May while providing the trial schedule and the petition’s pre-hearing report.

The Allied Peoples Movement (APM) and Atiku Abubakar of the PDP filed a petition, and the court postponed decision on that as well in order to deliver its ruling on the same day as Peter Obi of the Labour Party.