The legal team of the presidential candidate of the People’s Democratic party, Atiku Abubakar, has reacted to the forthcoming swearing-in of President-elect, Bola Tinubu after the sitting of the Presidential Election Petitions Court on Tuesday in Abuja.
Atiku’s lawyer, Chris Uche SAN, in a
statement, urged supporters of the PDP candidate not to lose sleep over the May
29 inauguration ceremony of the President-elect Bola Tinubu whose electoral
victory is being challenged in court.
“People are asking about May 29. We want to
assure people that swearing-in (of Tinubu) is a ceremony that does not tie the
hands of the court,” Uche said.
He added that an election can be overturned
by the court regardless of whether or not a previously declared winner has been
sworn in.
Meanwhile, on Tuesday, the tribunal ordered
petitioners to start calling their witnesses from May 30.
The PEPT equally consolidated all petitions
before it into one, having established that they are all disputing the outcome
of the 2023 poll.
Uche expressed satisfaction with the
consolidation of all petitions of PDP, Labour party and Allied Peoples Movement
and the three weeks the court gave them to prove their case.
He said the decision of the court is targeted
at fast-tracking the case.
“We are very happy that pre-hearing session
has been speedily concluded and we are going into proper hearing,” he said.
Lawyers to the Independent National Electoral
Commission and Tinubu refused to speak to the press after the Tribunal gave the
fresh directive on the petition challenging the election.
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