Tribunal merges PDP, LP, APM petitions challenging Tinubu victory

Tribunal merges PDP, LP petitions challenging Tinubu election victory

The presidential election petition court on Tuesday merged all the petitions challenging the election of Bola Tinubu as Nigeria’s president.

Tinubu, who was the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the February 25 presidential poll, was declared winner with 8,794,726 votes.

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) with its presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, and Peter Obi, the Labour Party (LP) candidate, are challenging Tinubu’s victory.

The Allied Peoples Movement (APM) is also challenging Tinubu’s election.

The presidential election petition court had raised the issue of consolidating all the petitions and asked parties to address it.

Tinubu and the APC had opposed the issue of a merger but the other petitioners maintained a neutral stance.

At the resumed court session on Tuesday, a five-member panel of the court led by Haruna Tsammani held that the petitions would be consolidated and heard side by side given the time constraint to hear and determine the petition.
The court has fixed May 30 to commence definite hearing of the petitions.