According to the Presidential Election Tribunal in Abuja, no time has been set for it to render decisions on the several petitions contesting the election of President Bola Tinubu.
In response to a widely circulated report that the Tribunal had set September 16, 2023, as the judgment date for the case brought by Atiku Abubakar, the Peoples Democratic Party, Peter Obi, and the Labor Party against Bola Tinubu, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Kashim Shettima, and the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Barrister Josephine J. Ekperobe, the Secretary of the PEPC panel, confirmed this to THE WHISTLER.
Netizens had been very engaged by the report, especially on X (formerly known as Twitter).
For instance, Charles Chukwuemeka Oputa, better known by his stage as Charly Boy, a well-known singer and activist, published the claim on his verified X handle.
Obidients, Are You Ready?, he penned. The decision date for the lawsuits pitting Peter Obi and the Labour Party against Bola Tinubu, INEC, Shettima, and the APC, as well as the PDP’s case pitting Atiku against the APC, INEC, and Tinubu, has been set for September 16, 2023, according to the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal (PEPT).
Ekperobe, however, denied that September 16, 2023 had been selected as the Tribunal judgment day in an interview with THE WHISTLER.
The representative responded to THE WHISTLER’s query, “No date yet.
While providing the pre-hearing report on the petition and presenting the trial schedule in May, the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal had combined the petitions submitted by the various political parties.
In order to give the verdicts on the same day as Peter Obi of the Labour Party, it also reserved judgment on the petition filed by the Allied Peoples Movement (APM) and Atiku Abubakar of the PDP.
