Buhari’s Re-Election: Tribunal Reserves Judgment In Petition - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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August 21, 2019
The Presidential Election Petition Tribunal onWednesday reserved judgment in the petition filed by the Peoples DemocraticParty, PDP and its presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar challenging PresidentMuhammadu Buhari’s victory in the February 23 general election.
Justice Mohammed Garba, Chairman of the five-man panelof justices reserved judgment to a date to be communicated to all parties,after all counsel in the matter adopted their written addresses.
Buhari was declared the winner of the February 23presidential election, with over 15 million votes as against Atiku’s 11,262,978 votes.
The Independent National Electoral Commission, INECand All Progressive Congress (APC) are the other respondents.
Earlier, Yunus Usman, SAN, Counsel for INEC urgedthat panel to uphold the objections he raised against the admissibility of allpieces of documentary and oral evidence led by the petitioners.
Usman submitted that the electoral body conductedthe Feb.23 presidential election in total compliance with provisions of theElectoral Act 2010 as amended.