Seven PDP States Withdraw suit challenging Tinubu as President-elect
Seven states under the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)—Adamawa, Akwa Ibom, Bayelsa, Delta, Edo, Taraba, and Sokoto—had filed a suit against the federal government.
They filed the suit at the Supreme Court challenging the declaration of All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate Bola Ahmed Tinubu as president-elect.
The states have withdrawn the suit through a Notice of Discontinuance that was signed by their lawyer and Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Mike Ozekhome, and says, “Take notice that the plaintiffs doth hereby wholly discontinue this suit against the defendant herein.”
Their grievances in the suit were that they claimed that the declaration of Tinubu did not follow the Electoral Act and INEC’s own laid-down guidelines, particularly the uploading of results to the iREV through the Bimodal Accreditation System (BVAS), and asked the Supreme Court to intervene.
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