JUST IN: We’re Unable To Serve Processes On Tinubu – Atiku, Obi Lament

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Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Atiku Abubakar and his counterpart in the Labour Party, Peter Obi, has accused the President-elect, Bola Tinubu, of deliberately avoiding petitions they filed to nullify his election.

Consequently, the duo have re-approached the Presidential Election Petition Court, PEPC, sitting in Abuja with ex-parte applications, seeking to be allowed to serve the petitions on Tinubu, through substituted means.

It will be recalled that Tinubu, who was on March 1, declared as the winner of the presidential election, is currently out of the country.

In their applications before the court, Atiku and Obi decried that all efforts to effect personal service of their petitions on him proved abortive.

Meanwhile, owing to an affidavit of urgency that accompanied the motion ex-parte, the court said it would hear Atiku and Obi’s applications by 11 am today.

It will be recalled that the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, had declared Tinubu of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, as the winner of the presidential poll, ahead of 17 other candidates that contested the election.

(Vanguard)