Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, formally filed his petition challenging the declaration of Senator Bola Tinubu as the president-elect.

INEC declared Tinubu as the winner of the election while Abubakar came second and Peter Obi of the Labour party came third. In the petition dated March 20, 2023 and filed on March 21, with appeal number CA/PEPT/05/2023, Abubakar is praying the tribunal to nullify the declaration of Bola Tinubu as the president-elect. The filing was confirmed by a member of the Atiku Legal Team, Silas Joseph Onu, on Tuesday evening.

This comes hours after the Labour Party (LP) and its candidate, Mr. Peter Obi, had similarly filed a petition at the election petitions tribunal in Abuja, challenging Tinubu’s status as the winner of the February 25, 2023, presidential election.

Ada Peter