The President Election Petition Court sitting in Abuja has adjourned the pre-hearing session of the petition filed by former Vice President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar against the election of Bola Ahmed Tinubu to May 18, 2023.
The former vice president’s petition was adjourned at the request of lawyers in the matter to enable them to put their house in order on various issues relating to the petition.
Atiku’s lead counsel, Chief Chris Uche SAN, notified the court that all the lawyers unanimously agreed to next Thursday’s return date to allow their teams to sort out documents to be tendered during the hearing of the petition.
Following no objection from Chief Wole Olanipekun SAN, who stood for Tinubu, Charles Edosomwen SAN, who represented the All Progressives Congress, APC, and Abubakar Mahmoud, who stood for the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Justice Haruna Simon Tsammani shifted the matter to May 18.
