Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, has asked the presidential election tribunal to declare him winner of the February 23 election.
He made the request in a petition filed before the tribunal, in Abuja, on Monday, where he challenged President Muhammadu Buhari’s re-election.
PDP’s national legal adviser, Emmanuel Enoidem, told journalists that in addition to the request that Alhaji Atiku be declared the winner of the election, the party is also seeking for the election to be set aside over alleged widespread irregularities.
Said he, “In the alternative, we also asked that the election be set aside on the ground of irregularity which was apparent across the country.
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“We have also lined up more than 400 witnesses that are going to testify in this petition,” he said.
Speaking on the issue, the spokesman of the Atiku campaign organisation, Segun Sowunmi, urged the judiciary to deliver a judgment that reflects that the country was practicing democracy.
“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,” he said.