The Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal has struck out some aspects of the petitions presented by the People Democratic Party’s presidential candidate in the February polls, Atiku Abubakar.
The struck out portions include those in which the PDP claimed that Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress was unqualified to contest the last presidential election.In the judgment on some motion by the respondents, the court held that while the petitioners claimed that Tinubu did not meet the constitutional threshold to enable him to contest the election, they failed to state what the required qualifications were.
It also struck out other paragraphs where it found that the petitioners made vague allegations of irregularities and malpractices.Announcing this, Justice Stephen Adah said, “The witness statements being incompetent are, hereby, struck out and as point because of this court.
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