Presidential polls: Atiku, PDP files petition against Tinubu’s victory

Atiku Abubakar, the candidate for president of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has formally filed a petition with the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal challenging the declaration of Bola Tinubu, the candidate for president of the All Progressives Congress (APC), as the President-elect of Nigeria. The petition is directed at the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal.

, in his petition bearing the designation CA/PEPC/03/2023, is requesting that the tribunal overturn Tinubu’s victory and declare him the victor of the presidential election that took place on February 25.

In the first through the fourth respondents, he named the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Tinubu, his running mate, Senator Kashim Shettima, and the All Progressives Congress (APC).

The petition was submitted just a few hours after the petitions of three further presidential candidates of the Labour Party, (LP), Mr. Peter Obi, were submitted.

The people who filed the case want the tribunal to rule that Tinubu did not win the election fairly since he did not receive a majority of the legitimate votes that were cast for him.

They demand an injunction that compels the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to either retrieve the certificate of return that was issued to the APC candidate or, failing that, hold a new election.