COURT ORDERS TINUBU TO BE SERVED PETITIONS VIA APC
The Presidential Election Petition Court, PEPC, in Abuja, on Friday, has ordered that the President-elect, Bola Tinubu, should be served with copies of petitions challenging his victory, through substituted means.
A three-man panel of the court led by Justice Joseph Ikyegh, directed that the petitions should be served on Tinubu, through his political party, the All Progressives Congress, APC.
The decision came as a result of two ex-parte applications filed before the court by Atiku Abubakar, the PDP candidate, and Peter Obi, the Labour Party candidate.
The duo accused the President-elect Tinubu, of deliberately avoiding the service of their petitions on him.
They told the court that several attempts they made to effect service of the petitions on Tinubu, proved abortive.
According to the petitioners, the President-elect deliberately made himself elusive with a view to frustrating their effort to hand him copies of the petition as required by the law.
The petitioners therefore requested the Court’s intervention, citing Sections 6(6a) and 36(1) of the 1999 Constitution as amended, Section 15 of the Court of Appeal Act, and Paragraph 8 of the First Schedule of the Election Act 2022.
Both Atiku and Obi further supported their ex-parte motions dated March 23, with affidavits of urgency and non-service, even as they persuaded the court to hear the applications, outside the pre-hearing session of their substantive petitions.
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