The Supreme Court is scheduled to deliver judgement on Thursday, October 26, 2023, in the cases of the Labour Party and its presidential candidate, Peter Obi; the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its candidate, Atiku Abubakar and the All Progressives…
Abiru congratulates Tinubu on victory at PEPT
Sen. Tokunbo Abiru (Lagos-East) has congratulated President Bola Tinubu, on his Wednesday’s victory at the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal. Abiru felicitated Tinubu in a statement issued by his media aide, Mr Enitan Olukotun, in Lagos on Thursday. The lawmaker hailed…
Tinubu rejects live broadcast of election tribunal, says court not stadium
President-elect Bola Tinubu and the Vice President-elect, Kashim Shettima, have described the application by Atiku Abubakar and the Peoples Democratic Party for a live broadcast of electoral petition proceedings as an “abuse of the processes of this honourable court.” They…
Drama as WAEC Deputy Registrar disowns Buhari’s Cambridge Certificate (Vanguard)
The Deputy Registrar of the West African Examination Council (WAEC), Oshindehinde Adewumi, on Wednesday, told the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Abuja that he was the one that certified President Muhammadu Buhari’s statement of results. However, under cross-examination, the…
Buhari’s counsel, others kick as Atiku, PDP tender documents as exhibits (Guardian)
Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the February 23 presidential election, Atiku Abubakar, and his party yesterday began move to prove their petition against the re-election of President Muhammadu Buhari by tendering volumes of documents at the Presidential…
INEC, Buhari fail to stop PDM’s election petition (Punch)
The Independent National Electoral Commission and President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday lost their bid to have the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal dismiss the petition filed by the Peoples Democratic Movement and its presidential candidate in the February 23, 2019, Pastor…
Tribunal hears objections to Atiku, PDP petition today (Guardian)
The Presidential Election Petition Tribunal (PEPT) yesterday resumed sitting 19 days after its last adjournment with the presiding justice of the Lagos Division of the Court of Appeal, Mohammed Lawal Garba, as new chairman. The pioneer chair and president of…
Tribunal begins sitting, hears Atiku, PDP petitions May 15 (Guardian)
The Presidential Election Petition Tribunal yesterday began work on the petitions filed by the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, his party and three other political groups alongside their flag-bearers against the declaration of President Muhammadu…
