The PDP presidential candidate in the just concluded presidential elections, which held on February 23, 2019, Atiku Abubakar, has filed a petition cha
The PDP presidential candidate in the just concluded presidential elections, which held on February 23, 2019, Atiku Abubakar, has filed a petition challenging Buhari’s victory at the Court of Appeal. The filing process was done by a team of lawyers led by Chris Uche.
Atiku is challenging the outcome of the February 23 poll, which he believes was rigged to favour President Muhammadu Buhari of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and is asking the tribunal to declare him authentic winner of the election or order that a fresh poll should be conducted.
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) had declared Buhari as winner but the PDP candidate rejected the result, alleging widespread irregularities. A court had also recently approved the PDP’s application to be allowed access to materials used for the election.
Emmanuel Enoidem, PDP national legal adviser, said: “We have in our team, 20 senior advocates of Nigeria (SAN) so we are confident. We have also lined up more than 400 witnesses that are going to testify in this petition at the tribunal,” he said.
Segun Sowunmi, spokesman of the Atiku Campaign Organization, said that the development is the first step to getting Nigeria working again. He said: “The judiciary should do what is right; examine the issues and deliver to Nigerians the kind of judgement that represent the fundamental operating principle of why we are in democracy and why the judiciary is the last hope of the common man.”
