The five-member panel, led by Justice Haruna Tsammani adjourned after listening to the adoption of answers by all the counsel in the petitions.
Before the court is the petition
filed by Atiku and the PDP; the petition dated March 21, 2023, challenging
the outcome of the Presidential election on 25 February.
At the resumed pre-hearing,
Chris Uche, SAN counsel for the petitioners, Atiku and PDP adopted their
answers in the pre-hearing filed on 27 April 2023.
He added that the filed Motion
on notice dated 7 May and served on all
the respondents for permission to televise the sitting nationwide.
Counsel to INEC, Abubakar
Mahmoud SAN adopted their answers in the pre-hearing information sheet filed
on 2 May 2023.
Responding to the live coverage,
he said they will await a former response.
Similarly, counsel to Tinubu,
Akin Olujimi, and SAN adopted their answers in the pre-hearing information sheet
filed on 2 May 2023.
He added that they have some
applications to strike out this petition in addition to others.
Responding to the live coverage
prayed by the petitioners, he said they will reply at the appropriate time.
Lastly, Lateef Fagbemi, SAN,
counsel to APC also adopted their answers and filed their answers on 2 May 2023.
In paragraph 14 of the answers
the 3rd respondent on May 8 filed two applications, one seeking the competence
of the petition and dismissal of the petition.
He added that the 2nd one is
seeking the striking out of the answers by the petitioners.
Responding to the motion for
live coverage by the petitioners, he said they will reply at the appropriate
time.
The panel led by Justice Haruna
Tsammani adjourned until Thursday for the continuation of the pre-hearing session
at 2 pm.
He advised parties to harmonise
their answers for consideration at the next adjourned date.
He added that the motion for
live coverage by the petitioners filed on May 7 will be considered along with others.
Similarly, The Allied Peoples
Movement (APM) in a petition marked CA/PEPC/04/ challenging the outcome of
the Feb 25 presidential election was also heard.
The respondents are Independent
National Electoral Commission(INEC), Action Progressives Congress (APC), Sen. Bola
Tinubu, Sen.Kashim Shettima and Kabir Madari.
Counsel to the petitioners, S.A.
Abubakar told the panel that on behalf of the petitioners, filed on April
21 and adopted it as answers to rely on during the proceedings.
Abubakar Mahmoud, SAN counsel to
INEC adopted their answers filed on May 5 as their response to the petition.
Lateef Fagbemi, SAN, counsel
for APC also adopted their answers filed on May 2,
He, however, informed the panel
that they filed two motions on May 8 which would be taken at the appropriate
time.
Akin Olujimi for Tinubu and
Shettima also adopted their answers filed on May 3.
Lastly, Mr Toni Aliyu, SAN also
adopted their answers filed on May 2 with two applications to be heard at the
appropriate time.
According to the APM, Tinubu and
Shettima were not qualified to contest the election on the grounds of the
alleged double nomination of the vice president-elect.
The panel headed by Justice
Haruna Tsammani after listening directed parties to harmonise their answers and
consider what to be taken and what not.
He further adjourned the
pre-hearing until Thursday.
Recall reports the tribunal
started pre-hearing on Monday and will hear four petitions challenging INEC's
declaration of Tinubu winner of the Feb. 25 Presidential Election.
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