The Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPT) is expected to be deliver judgement on Wednesday, September 6th on the suits against INEC’s declaration of Bola Tinubu as the winner of the February 25th presidential election.
This is according to a statement signed by Chief Registrar Court of Appeal Umar Bangari on Monday.
Bangari also revealed that the proceedings will be open to live broadcast by interested television stations.
4/09/2023
PRESS STATEMENT
The Court of Appeal wishes to inform the General Public that judgment in the following petitions before the Presidential Election Petition Court will be delivered on Wednesday 6th September, 2023: pic.twitter.com/7jirIMofcL
— Court of Appeal, Nigeria (CoA) (@NGCourtofAppeal) September 4, 2023
Election tribunals in 25 states are also expected to deliver judgement for governorship, National Assembly, and state assembly election petitions.
Recall that the Labour Party (LP), the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), and the Allied Peoples Movement (APM), as well as their presidential candidates, are at the tribunal seeking to nullify the election of President Bola Tinubu as the winner of the 2023 presidential election.
INEC Chairman, Professor Mahmood Yakubu, had announced Tinubu as the winner, 4 days after the election at the National Collation Centre in Abuja.
According to Yakubu, Tinubu, who was former Governor of Lagos State, garnered a total of 8,794,726 votes to defeat his major rivals; Atiku Abubakar of the People Democratic Party (PDP) who polled 6,984,520 votes , and Peter Obi of Labour Party who secured 6,101,533 votes of the 24,965,218 total vote cast.
Also Sen. Rabiu Kwankwaso- of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) came distance fourth with 1,496,687 votes.
The election result sheets was not signed by PDP, LP, NNPP, and other parties which had earlier on Monday staged a walk out of the national collation centre.
The leadership of the parties had on Tuesday alleged that the election process was compromised and demanded that the chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) step aside.
They said that the February 25 presidential election was marred with violence, intimidation of voters and rigging.
Ifunanya Ikueze is an Engineer, Safety Professional, Writer, Investor, Entrepreneur and Educator.
