The Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP) Alhaji Abubakar Atiku was at the Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC), as parties were set to adopt their final written addresses.
The adoption of final addresses is the precursor to fixing a date for judgement in the petition of Atiku and the PDP challenging the outcome of the Feb. 25 presidential election.
The Justice Haruna Tsammani-led five-member panel of the court had on the last adjourned date directed parties to prepare their final briefs of argument and appear before it for adoption.
The PEPC in a notice to the parties, invited them to adopt their written address with respect to the petition filed against President Bola Tinubu and Vice -President Kashim Shettima praying the court to nullify their election.
It will be recalled that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), had on March 1, announced that Tinubu of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), won the presidential election ahead of 17 other candidates that participated in the contest.
It declared that Tinubu scored a total of 8,794,726 votes to defeat the two major contenders, Atiku of the PDP, who came second with a total of 6,984,520 votes, and Mr Peter Obi of the Labour Party, who came third with a total of 6,101,533 votes.
However, dissatisfied with the outcome of the election, both Atiku and Obi approached the court to invalidate it.
The duo, in their separate petitions, claimed that they won the presidential poll, even as they challenged Tinubu’s eligibility to contest the election.
The petitioners are both praying the court to declare them winners or in the alternative, nullify the election and order a fresh presidential election, with the exclusion of President Tinubu whom they argued was ab-initio, not qualified to participate.