Dismisses President Elect, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu’s Objections To The Merger Of Petitions.

The Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC) sitting in Abuja, today, Tuesday, May 23, 2023, slated May 30, 2021, a day after inauguration, for candidate of the Labour Party, LP, Mr. Peter Obi, to open his case against the outcome of the presidential election which held on February 25.

The court also consolidated the three different petitions seeking to nullify the outcome of the 2023 Presidential Election.

The parties challenging the outcome of the Presidential Election in Nigeria are Alhaji Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Mr Peter Obi of the Labour Party (LP) and the Allied Peoples Movement (APM).

The five-member panel of the court, led by Justice Haruna Tsammani, in a unanimous decision, dismissed objections the President-elect, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu and the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) raised against the prayer to merge the petitions.

According to the court, “the justice of the cases demands that they be consolidated and dealt with as one petition since they all relate to the same election.”

The court also said the parties will “adopt final briefs of argument on August 5 to enable it to fix a date for judgement.”