Permission has been issued by the Court of Appeal to the Peoples Democratic Party and its presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar to serve their petition to President Muhammadu Buhari through other means.
Atiku Abubakar and the Peoples Democratic Party are challenging the February 23rd Presidential election which saw the electoral umpire, INEC declaring President Muhammadu Buhari as the winner of the poll.
A three-man bench which sat in a “pre-hearing session” of the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal, granted the request contained in the petitioners’ ex parte application that Buhari, who is the second respondent to the petition, be served through any senior official or an officer of the APC at the party’s secretariat in Abuja.
Granting the ex parte application, Justice Abdu Aboki, who led the panel and delivered the lead ruling, said “it is in the interest of justice” to grant the prayers in the petitioners’ application.
The petitioners’ lead counsel, Chief Chris Uche (SAN), had earlier moved the application.
The petitioners had on March 18, 2019, filed their case to challenge the Independent National Electoral Commission’s declaration of Buhari and his party, the APC, as the winner of the election.
The INEC, Buhari and the APC are the first to the third respondents respectively.
Related… Sanusi Speaks On His Post Election Decision
The Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi II has resolved to avoid controversies after the recent elections that took place in the country.
Sanusi said this while speaking during a dinner organised to celebrate the 125th anniversary of First Bank of Nigeria Limited in Lagos on Tuesday night.
“My new post-election resolution is to avoid controversies; economics, politics,” he said.
He said it was important for the government to have good plans for the country, that would help to eradicate poverty.
“My prayer is that with these elections, the government would not think of these four years, but the government would think of Nigeria125 years from now,” he said.
The emir called for more commitment to the education of the girl child. He said this while relating the story of a woman, whose child died while she was waiting to get financial support to buy drugs, which were less than five dollars.
He wondered at the number of children who died daily because of their inability to access healthcare and girls who die during childbirth.
He said it was cogent to address the issue of poverty and malnutrition in the country.
Sanusi was a former governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria.
Source: Punch
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