The Presidential Election Commission has approved the People's Democratic Party and its presidential candidate Atiku Abubakar to serve President Muhammadu Buhari and APC with a petition that have to be replaced.


The Petition and other procedures is to be despatched to the President at 40 Blantyre street Aminu Kano Crescent Wuse 2 Abuja, which is the APC's National Secretariat.

The adviser to the PDP and its presidential candidate, Chris Uche, requested the trial courtroom for an appeal against the request on the grounds that the President had turn out to be certainly impossible to be reached for personal service.

Uche additionally informed the court that it is in the interest of legal safety that the request be granted.

The application for experience was primarily based on seven criteria and seventeen of the statements and the second of five extra explanations.

Abdul Aboki, chief judge of the three-man panel court, mentioned in his decision that the court admitted the petitioners' request for justice.


As indicated by him, "in the wake of having deliberately perused the narrative proof and the grounds on which the application was based, the Court is persuaded that it is to the Ombudsman's advantage that the request of two solicitors be conceded.
"Therefore, the court orders that Buhari, the second defendant of the petition, is sent to the petition thru all the senior officials of the Progressive Congress."

On 18 March, Alhaji Abubakar submitted a petition for the presidential election held on 23 February via President Mohammadu Buhari.

He requested the court to declare him the winner of the presidential election, which has won the majority of the votes cast.

In the alternative, he and his party ask the courtroom to annul the election, which returned President Buhari as president and ordered INEC to conduct new elections.

There is no date for the petition to be dealt with on the grounds that the primary defendant, the President, has not been formally served with the petition as required by law.