PEPC Rejects Atiku’s 15 witnesses In Case Against Tinubu

By Adesina Soyooye

15 out of the 27 witnesses presented by the Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Atiku Abubakar, have been rejected by the Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal, PEPT.

PEPT rejected them on Wednesday, September 6, 2023, while delivering its judgment on the declaration of President Bola Tinubu, then candidate of the All Progressives Congress,  APC, as winner.

Justice Stephen Adah, a member of the five-man panel who read the ruling said it was on the grounds that the petitioner did not file their statements on oath along with the petition.

PEPT also noted that the petitioner could not file the statements on oath “before the close of the 21-day window given from the date election result was announced.”