Amid tight security the Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal pre-hearing in the petitions challenging the outcome of the February 25 presidential election begins in Abuja on Monday, as the Action Alliance (AA) and its Presidential candidate, Solomon David Okanigbuan, have withdrawn their petition challenging the declaration of Bola Tinubu as the winner of the 2023 presidential election.
At the commencement of the pre-hearing session of the Presidential Election Petition Court sitting, counsel to the petitioners, Oba Maduabuchi (SAN) moved a motion for the withdrawal of the petition.
The Independent National Electoral Commission declared that Bola Tinubu of the ruling All Progressives Congress polled 8,794,726 votes to win the election.
The Commission declared that Atiku came second with 6,984,520 votes, while it announced Labour Party’s Peter Obi as the second runner-up with 6,101,533 votes.
But Atiku, Obi and some other parties rejected the results announced by INEC and had approached the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal to annul Tinubu’s victory.
Atiku, in his 66-page petition, is praying the tribunal to declare him winner of the poll or order a fresh election.
Obi, in his petition, is also praying the tribunal to nullify Tinubu’s election.
