Obi, Atiku, others file petitions to nullify Tinubu’s victory
•Seek fresh poll as alternative prayer Legal battle to nullify the victory of the President-elect, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, kick-started on Tuesday, with four separate petitions lodged before the Presidential Election Petition Court, PEPC, sitting at the Abuja Division of the Court of Appeal. Among those who formally approached the court to challenge the declaration of Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress, APC, as winner of the February 25 presidential election are the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Atiku Abubakar, and that of the Labour Party, LP, Mr. Peter Obi. The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, had on March 1, announced Tinubu as the winner of the presidential poll, ahead of 17 other candidates that contested the election. It declared that Tinubu scored a total of 8,794,726 votes to defeat Atiku, who polled 6,984,520 votes and Obi who came third with 6,101,533 votes. Dissatisfied with the outcome of the election, Atiku and Obi, through their respectiv...