The Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP) presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, has lodged an appeal with the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal regarding the declaration of All Progressives Congress’ (APC) Asiwaju Bola Tinubu as the President-elect.
The Nation reports Tinubu secured 8,794,726 votes to defeat Abubakar who polled 6,984,520 votes, and Obi with 6,101,533 votes in the election held on February 25.
Atiku, in the petition, marked: CA/PEPC/05/2023, listed INEC, Tinubu and APC as respondents.
He submitted that Tinubu’s declaration as the winner of the poll was “invalid by reason of non-compliance with the provisions of the electoral act, 2022”.
“The 2nd respondent (Tinubu) was not duly elected by the majority of lawful votes cast at the election,” the petition reads.
“The 2nd respondent was at the time of the election not qualified to contest the election.”
The PDP candidate wants the tribunal to nullify Tinubu’s victory and withdraw the certificate of return issued to him.
He prayed the court to declare him the winner, having secured the second-highest number of lawful votes at the election.