The Presidential Election Petition Court will resume on Tuesday May 30, full hearing on all petitions challenging his electoral victory, after Bola Tinubu was sworn-in as President of Nigeria.
The Labour Party, Peter Obi, Atiku Abubakar of the People’s Democratic party, and the Allied Peoples Movement are seeking to nullify the outcome of 2023 presidential election.
The President-elect Bola Tinubu and the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) had vehemently opposed the proposal by the Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC) to consolidate the three surviving petitions challenging the conduct and outcome of the February 25 election.
But the court, in a pre-hearing report issued and read on Tuesday by Justice Haruna Tsammani, the five-member panel in a unanimous decision, dismissed objections Asiwaju Bola Tinubu and APC, raised against the the merger of the petitions.
The court held that Justice of the cases demanded that they should be consolidated and dealt with as one petition since they all relate to the same election.
The commencement of hearing in the petition by Obi and the LP on May 30.
The court also directed the parties to start bringing witnesses against the Independent National Electoral Commission and Tinubu.
Likewise, the court gave the 4th respondent in the case, Kabiru Masari, three days to defend himself.
However, PEPC stated that trial in the petition will end on August 5 when lawyers of the parties are to adopt their final written addresses, following which a date will be set for judgment.
