The Presidential Election Petition Tribunal (PEPT) has elected to merge the three petitions filed by Alhaji Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP); Peter Obi of the Labour Party (LP), and the Allied Peoples Movement (APM). The court, in a pre-hearing report issued and read today (Tuesday) by Justice Haruna Tsammani, the five-member panel of the court ordered the commencement of hearing in the petitions by Obi and his party on May 30, 2023. The court also directed that the petitioners should conduct their case within three weeks, during which it should call its planned 50 witnesses, begining from May 30 when they shall begin to call witnesses and close in June 23. The Election Tribunal stated that trial in the petition will end on August 5 when lawyers to parties are to adopt their final written addresses, following which a date will be set for judgment.