Since Tuesday, May 30, the Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal
(PEPT) has been hearing petitions challenging the victory of President Bola
Tinubu (All Progressives Congress) in the February 25 presidential election.
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its candidate, Atiku Abubakar; the Labour Party and its candidate, Peter Obi; and the Allied Peoples’ Movement (APM) are the petitioners.
On the other hand, the respondents include the Independent National
Electoral Commission (INEC), Tinubu, Vice-President Kashim Shettima, and the
APC.
According to results declared by INEC, Tinubu, 71, got 8,794,726 votes,
76-year-old Atiku polled 6,984,520 votes and Obi, 61, finished the race with
6,101,533.
This was the first presidential election to deploy the Bimodal Voter
Accreditation System (BVAS) — an electronic system for accrediting voters
before voting and transmitting results to the INEC server — as well as the INEC
Results Viewing Portal (IReV).
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