The Action Alliance, one of the political parties that contested at the February 25 Presidential election, has withdrawn its petition against the President-elect, Bola Ahmed Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress.
The action was taken at the ongoing pre-hearing at the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal in cases disputing the outcome of the presidential election on Monday in Abuja.
The ruling All Progressives Congress’s Bola Tinubu received 8,794,726 votes, according to the Independent National Electoral Commission.
The commission announced that Atiku finished second with 6,984,520 votes, while Labour Party’s Peter Obi finished second with 6,101,533 votes.
However, Atiku, Obi, and other parties challenged INEC’s results and petitioned the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal to overturn Tinubu’s victory.
On what to expect at today’s hearing, a senior lawyer in Tinubu’s camp told one of our correspondents on Sunday, “The only thing they will do is schedule the hearing, the number of witnesses, how many minutes the witness will use, and how to admit the documents; that’s what they call pre-trial.”
“They are going to prepare a timetable for the hearing of the cases, the number of days to be spent by the petitioners, the number of days to be spent by the respondents, how do we take in the documents, certified true copy of the documents, are they going to be admitted like that, or if there is an objection, how do we raise an objection to document?”
“Will the court write an objection ruling immediately, or will it write it in the cause of the main judgment?” That is what will happen tomorrow (Monday).”
In his 66-page appeal, Atiku asks the tribunal to proclaim him the winner of the race or to order a new election.
Obi, for his part, is asking the tribunal to invalidate Tinubu’s election in his case.
