The Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal in Abuja has fixed the petition filed by the Allied Peoples Movement to May 18, 2023, for the continuation of the pre-hearing.
The party is challenging the emergence of Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, of the ruling All Progressive Congress, APC, as the winner of the February 25 presidential elections.
In the petition marked CA/ABJ/PEPC/04/2022, the party is challenging the results of the presidential election on grounds of irregularities including the mutilation of election results.
The party argued that Tinubu did not have a validly nominated vice president. According to the party, he was not validly sponsored by the APC.
Listed as 1st to 5th respondents in the petition are INEC, APC, Bola Tinubu, Kashim Shettima and Kabir Masari.
The five-man panel presided over by Justice Haruna Tsammani shifted the date to Thursday next week upon the request by the petitioner’s counsel and the confirmation of the agreement by counsel to the respondents.
