By: Charles TERWASE.
Epistlenews, Abuja.
The Presidential Election Petition Tribunal (PEPT) sitting in Abuja, has adjourned further pre-hearing session of the petition by the Labour Party and its candidate, Peter Obi filed to nullify Tinubu’s election victory, to Wednesday, 10, May, 2023.
The Tribunal equally fixed the same date for another petition by the Action Peoples Party, APP, while it adjourned the case of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP,) and its candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, to Tuesday.
While adjourning the cases, the Tribunal urged the parties to identify all the witness statements and documents they would rely on or object to during the actual hearing of the petitions.
Among those in Court to witness the proceedings included the Presidential candidate of the LP, Mr Peter Obi.
The Tribunal, earlier had stopped Governor Simon Lalong of Plateau State from standing before it as the representative of the President-elect, Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
Lalong, immediately after the first petition that was logged against the outcome of the 2023 Presidential Election was called up, stood up and announced himself as Tinubu’s representative.
“My Lord’s my name is Simon Lalong and I am here to represent Tinubu,” he said.
Justice Haruna Tsammani, who led a five-member panel that declined to recognise him as Tinubu’s representative.
“You cannot represent an individual. Tinubu is not a corporation that would need a representative,” the presiding justice held.
“My Lords, in that case, I will represent the All Progressives Congress, APC,” Governor Lalong replied.
