It is no longer news that the 2023 Presidential Election Petition Tribunal sitting at the court of appeals in Abuja has commenced hearing on the complaints filed by opposition political parties and their candidates challenging the victory of the president-elect, Bola Ahmed Tinubu
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) had on March 1, 2023 declared Tinubu and his party, the All Progressives Congress (APC) the winner of the 25 February polls.
However, some opposition candidates with their parties had filed their petitions within 21 days of INEC announcing the results to challenge the outcome.
The petitioners include the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) with its presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, and the Labour Party, with its candidate, Peter Obi.
The rest are the Action Alliance (AA), the Action Peoples Party (APP) and the Allied Peoples Movement (APM).
The petitioners allege INEC’s non-compliance with the Electoral Act as well as other fraudulent practices by Mr Tinubu and his agents during the election. With Mr Tinubu’s victory mired in unpreceedented litigation, the election petition court commenced hearing to determine the disputes.
Below are summary of proceedings from yesterday (Wednesday) sitting.
Watch the video below.
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