The Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal (PEPT) has been hearing petitions challenging President Bola Tinubu’s (All Progressives Congress) victory in the February 25 presidential election since Tuesday, May 30.
The petitioners are the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its candidate, Atiku Abubakar; the Labour Party and its candidate, Peter Obi; and the Allied Peoples’ Movement (APM).
Respondents include the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Tinubu, Vice-President Kashim Shettima, and the All Progressives Congress (APC).
According to results declared by INEC, Tinubu, 71, got 8,794,726 votes, 76-year-old Atiku polled 6,984,520 votes and Obi, 61, finished the race with 6,101,533.
This was the first presidential election to deploy the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) — an electronic system for accrediting voters before voting and transmitting results to the INEC server — as well as the INEC Results Viewing Portal (IReV).
Eyitayo Jegede (SAN) leads the team of other senior advocates for Atiku Abubakar (petitioner) as the tribunal resumes hearing on the case between Atiku Abubakar VS INEC, Bola Tinubu/Shettima and the APC on Tuesday.