The Court of Appeal has granted Atiku Abubakar, Presidential Candidate of the PDP in the February presidential election permission to serve President Muhammadu Buhari his petition through substituted means.
Counsel to Abubakar and the PDP, Chris Uche, SAN while moving the ex parte motion on Wednesday, asked the appellate court to grant the application on the grounds personal service on the president had become practically impossible.
Uche predicated his application on seven grounds with a 17 paragraph affidavit as well as a further affidavit of five paragraphs.
The three-man panel led by Justice Abdul Aboki ruled that it was in the interest of justice to grant the ex parte application.
Abubakar is challenging the election of Buhari as president in the Feb. 23 presidential election.
He filed a petition on March 18 before the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal challenging the declaration of Buhari as the winner of the presidential election.
