Tribunal consolidates APM, Obi’s, Atiku’s petitions, releases trial schedule

Nigeria’s Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC) on Tuesday gave the pre-hearing report and also presented the trial schedule on the ongoing petition challenging the outcome of the 2023 presidential election. Chairman of the five-man panel of the court, Justice Haruna Tsammani, read the pre-hearing report, which included the declaration of the court’s decision to consolidate […]

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Tribunal moves to merge all petitions against Tinubu, APC and INEC

Nigeria’s Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC), sitting in Abuja, has disclosed plans to merge the three separate petitions seeking to nullify the outcome of the 2023 presidential election by virtue of paragraph 50 of the First Schedule of the Electoral Act to merge all the petitions and decide them together. This view was supported by […]

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Court orders Tinubu to be served with petitions through APC

Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC) sitting in Abuja, Nigeria, on Friday, ordered that the President-elect, Bola Tinubu, should be served with copies of petitions seeking to nullify his election, through substituted means, on APC. The ruling followed separate ex-parte applications that were brought before the court by the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, […]

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Keyamo petitions Obi-Datti to DSS, LP PCC says petition baseless

Chief Spokesman for the Labour Party Presidential Campaign Council (LP) (PCC), Yunusa Tanko, has described the allegations in the petition sent to the Department of State Services (DSS) by his counterpart in the All Progressives Congress (APC) PCC, Festus Keyamo, as baseless. Tanko responded hours after Keyamo wrote to the DSS accusing the presidential candidate of […]

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Clark petitions Buhari, names real persons behind raid on his Abuja home

Former federal commissioner for information and leader of the South-south region, Chief Edwin Clark, has revealed the identity of top police officers, he believed were involved in the raiding of his Abuja home on Tuesday. Chief Clark, who is demanding a full scale investigation into the matter, named a Deputy Commissioner of Police, Yusuf Kolo, […]

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