Tag Archives: Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal

Atiku In Court For His, PDP Adoption Of Final Written Address

Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the February 25, 2023 presidential election and former Vice of President Nigeria, 1999-2007, Atiku Abubakar, on Tuesday, led other stalwarts of the PDP to the court session for the adoption of their final written address at the Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal at the Court of Appeal in Abuja.

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Stop Blackmailing Presidential Election Court, Group Tells Tinubu

The Neo Africana Centre has asked President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to stop blackmailing and intimidating the Presidential Election Petitions Court (PREPEC) as he has been doing. Tinubu had, in his final written address to the petitions challenging his declaration as president warned the PREPEC not to nullify the February 25 presidential election on the ground that he did not score ...

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Tinubu, APC, INEC Open Defence At Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal

President Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) would today open their defence against the petitions filed by the presidential candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the Labour Party (LP), Atiku Abubakar and Peter Obi, respectively. Atiku and Obi had last week Friday closed their cases at the Presidential Election Petition ...

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Election Petition: Buhari’s Cambridge Documents Unknown To WAEC, Deputy Registrar Tells Tribunal

*Posers raised on discrepancies in President’s name in different documents; number of subjects sat for The West African Examination Council (WAEC) has told the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal in Abuja that the body has no hand in the issuance of results to Muhammadu Buhari by the Cambridge University International Assessment Education. The Council also stated that the assessment result sheet ...

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INEC’s Lawyer To Tribunal: We Won’t Call Witnesses Against Atiku

…says Atiku’s witnesses supported their case The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says it will not call any witness to defend its case in respect of the petition filed by the Peoples Democratic Party and its presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar. When called upon by the tribunal to open his case on Monday, INEC’s lawyer, Yunus Usman (SAN), said it ...

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Alleged Rigging: Tension In Buhari’s Camp As Atiku Seeks To Present Video Evidence

Palpable tension gripped the camps of President Muhammadu Buhari and the All Progressives Congress (APC) on Monday when the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Atiku Abubakar sought to tender 48 video CDs to show state by state how the February 23, 2019 presidential election was allegedly rigged against him. Atiku and PDP also applied to the presidential ...

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(Updated) Gunmen Attack PDP Witnesses Going To Presidential Election Petition Tribunal

*Witnesses testify Borno, Yobe results transmitted to INEC’s Server *Civil servants in Borno, Yobe threatened to vote APC or lose their jobs, farmlands Hearing in Atiku Abubakar’s petition challenging the declaration of President Muhammadu Buhari in the February 23 presidential election was brought to a halt on Friday when information reached the presidential election petition tribunal that the witnesses of ...

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Presidential Election Tribunal: We Transmitted Election Results To INEC’s Server – Ad Hoc Workers

Atiku To Challenge Kano, Kebbi And Nine Other States’ Results Three Independent National Electoral Commission ad hoc workers, who testified before the presidential election petitions tribunal on Monday, said they transmitted the results of the election electronically into INEC’s server. INEC had declared Muhammadu Buhari and All Progressives Congress (APC) the winner of the February 23 election polling 15,191,847 votes ...

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Election Petition: Atiku Tenders 26,175 Exhibits From 8 States

Atiku Abubakar, Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic and his party, the PDP on Friday tendered a total of 26,175 exhibits against the February 23, 2019 election that produced Muhammadu Buhari as President and in support of his petition seeking nullification of the election on grounds of fraud, election malpractices and non qualification of Buhari to stand for the poll. ...

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