{"id":104771,"date":"2023-05-11T15:33:37","date_gmt":"2023-05-11T14:33:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=104771"},"modified":"2023-05-11T15:33:37","modified_gmt":"2023-05-11T14:33:37","slug":"tribunal-adjourns-atikus-petition-against-tinubus-victory-till-may-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/tribunal-adjourns-atikus-petition-against-tinubus-victory-till-may-18\/","title":{"rendered":"Tribunal Adjourns Atiku\u2019s Petition Against Tinubu\u2019s Victory\u00a0Till May 18"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"m#msg-f:1765605602007346315\" class=\"mail-message expanded\">\n<div class=\"mail-message-header spacer\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">The five-member panel, led by Justice Haruna Tsammani of the Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC), sitting in Abuja, on Thursday, adjourned proceedings on the joint petition filed by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, challenging the results of the 2023 presidential election till May 18.<\/div>\n<div class=\"mail-message-content collapsible zoom-normal mail-show-images \" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<div class=\"clear\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">\nPEPC, adjourned the petition for the continuation of the pre-hearing session.<\/p>\n<p>The counsel of the PDP and Atiku, Chief Chris Uche, SAN, told the court that the parties had met and agreed on modalities for a seamless progression of the pre-hearing session.<\/p>\n<p>The respondents\u2019 counsels, including Mr. A. 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Mahmood, SAN, of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Chief Wole Olanipekun, SAN, of the President-elect, and Chief Charles Edosomwon, SAN, of the All Progressives Congress (APC), confirmed the report by counsel for the petitioners.<\/p>\n<p>The five-member panel equally heard an application seeking for live coverage of the proceedings, and the respondents said they would file their responses\u00a0before Monday.<\/p>\n<p>However, Justice Tsammani, praised the parties for their cooperation and agreement, stressing that it would assist in the quick conclusion of the pre-hearing session.<\/p>\n<p>The joint petition marked: CA\/PEPC\/05\/2023, filed by Atiku and the PDP, are seeking for the withdrawal of the Certificate of Return, issued to the President-elect, Bola Tinubu of the APC, by INEC.<\/p>\n<p>According to the petitioners, the declaration of Tinubu as the winner of the presidential election was invalid due to non-compliance with the provisions of the Electoral Act, 2022, adding that Tinubu\u2019s election was invalid due to corrupt practices.<\/p>\n<p>Atiku is asking the court to declare him the winner of the presidential election, having secured the second-highest number of lawful votes cast at the election.<\/p>\n<p>But in a reply to Atiku\u2019s prayers filed by his team of lawyers, Tinubu queried the legal competence of petitions seeking to invalidate his election victory.<\/p>\n<p>During the preliminary objection, Tinubu described Atiku as a consistent serial loser who had crisscrossed different political parties in search of power since 1993.<\/p>\n<p>He said he would lead evidence before the court to show how Atiku\u2019s emergence as a candidate in the presidential election led to the \u201cbalkanisation\u201d of the opposition PDP.<\/p>\n<p>Arguing on the matter, Tinubu stated that he was validly returned as the winner of the presidential election by INEC and that it was not a mandatory requirement of the law that he must win the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja, before he could be declared as the President-elect.<\/p>\n<p>INEC announced and declared Tinubu as the winner of the presidential poll on March 1, ahead of 17 other candidates who contested the election.<\/p>\n<p>According to the INEC, Tinubu polled a total of 8,794,726 votes, Atiku polled 6,984,520 votes, and Obi came third with a total of 6,101,533 votes.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mail-message-footer spacer collapsible\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The five-member panel, led by Justice Haruna Tsammani of the Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC), sitting in Abuja, on Thursday, adjourned proceedings on the joint petition filed by the Peoples&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":104772,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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