By Ayo Jones
(with Agency Reports)
Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar has filed a petition with the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal challenging the declaration of Asiwaju Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC), as the election winner.
On Tuesday night, a member of Atiku’s legal team named Silas Joseph Onu confirmed the submission.
This comes shortly after the Labour Party (LP) and Mr. Peter Obi, the LP’s presidential candidate, challenged Tinubu’s declaration as the winner of the presidential election held on February 25, 2023, before the Abuja electoral petitions tribunal.
The petition titled CA/PEPC/03/2023 has INEC, Tinubu, his running mate, Senator Kashim Shettima, and the APC as respondents.
The petitioners are requesting that the tribunal rule that Tinubu was not properly elected by a majority of lawful votes cast in the election.
They want INEC to retrieve the certificate of return issued to the APC candidate and issue a new one to Obi.