By Adesina Soyooye
The Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC) has said that the Presidential Candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, now the President, Bola Tinubu, does not require to win upto 25 per cent of votes in Abuja to be declared the winner of the February 25, 2023 Presidential Election.
By that declaration, the PEPC put rest the argument of whether winning 25% in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) was necessary in becoming president of Nigeria.
The PEPC said the voters in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Abuja are equal to every other voters in the states in Nigeria, and insisted that Abuja has no special status.
The Labour Party and the Peoples Democratic Party Presidential candidates had submitted that winning 25% of the FCT votes, in addition to meeting other requirements, is a requirement for being declared the winner in the Presidential Election.
 has said that the Presidential Candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, now the){kind=link}