As the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal begins hearing today, Peter Obi, the candidate for the Labour Party in the February 25 presidential election, has arrived at the hearing location.
Bola Tinubu, the president-elect of the All Progressives Congress, won the election by defeating Obi and other candidates from other parties.
On the grounds that the Independent National Electoral Commission’s rules and the electoral laws were not followed, five political parties and their candidates have each challenged the results of the presidential election held on February 25.
The Chief Registrar of the Court of Appeal, Haruna Tsammani, Justice Stephen Adah of the Court of Appeal Asaba division, Justice Misitura Bolaji-Yusuf of the Court of Appeal, also of the Asaba Division, Justice Boloukuoromo Ugoh of the Kano division, and Justice Abba Mohammed of the Ibadan Court of Appeal are the justices who will preside over the petition as the Presidential Petition Court gets ready today.
Before the court adjourned, the five-member justice panel led by Justice Haruna Tsammani, the PEPC’s presiding justice, assured that just will be served.
Justice Tsammani said, “We are determined to look at the matter dispassionately and give justice to whoever deserves justice.”
He said they would consider the substance of each case over technicalities so that ” whoever leaves here will be satisfied that justice has been done.”
