Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has been declared the winner of the presidential election, but the Peoples Democratic Party‘s (PDP) nominee for president, Atiku Abubakar, has filed a petition with the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal to challenge this.
Silas Joseph Onu, a member of the Atiku Law 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, 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.