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The Motion Peoples Occasion (APP) has withdrawn its petition which challenged the declaration of Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) because the president-elect within the February 5, 2023 presidential election.
The unbiased Nationwide Electoral Fee declared Bola Tinubu because the winner of the election having polled whole of 8,794,726 whole votes to defeat his closest contender, Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Occasion (PDP) who polled a complete of 6,984,520 votes.
Peter Obi of the Labour Occasion (LP) polled a complete of 6,101,533 votes to safe the third place whereas Kwankwaso polled a complete of 1,496,687 votes within the presidential election to safe the fourth place.
Obed Agu, the counsel of the social gathering knowledgeable the court docket concerning the movement on discover dated and filed on the Could 9, indicating the social gathering’s intention to withdraw the go well with quantity CA/PEPC/02/2023, pursuant to paragraph 29, sub-sections 1, 2, 3, 4 of schedule of election petition.
He referred to as for an order of the court docket, to grant the withdrawal of the petition. The respondents within the matter didn’t object to the withdrawal.
”We commend the petitioner for the movement to strike out the petition and hope that extra will nonetheless come,” the Respondents mentioned.
Nevertheless, Lateef Fagbemi, SAN, Counsel to APC and and counsel to the Impartial Nationwide Electoral Fee (INEC), Abubakar Mahmoud, SAN, didn’t object to the withdrawal.
The Tribunal with out additional ado held that, “Having thought-about the appliance, we’re happy that there was no collision on the a part of the Respondents.
The petition was subsequently dismissed from the court docket. “The petition is hereby dismissed, having been withdrawn,” the court docket held.
