Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal Announces Date To Deliver Judgement On 2023 Election

The Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal may have finally fixed Saturday, September 16 as date for the much-awaited judgement on the petitions challenging the declaration of President Bola Tinubu as winner of the February 25 presidential election by the Independent National Electoral Commission.

This is coming four weeks after the Tribunal reserved judgement.

It was gathered on Monday morning that the five-member tribunal which sat at the Court of Appeal complex in Abuja from May 8 to August 1, has set September 16 as the judgment date.

The date is the deadline for the tribunal to deliver its judgment.

The Justice Haruna Simon Tsamani-led tribunal is expected to deliver judgement on the three petitions lodged by the Peoples Democratic Party, the Labour Party and the Allied Peoples Movement together with their presidential candidates, Atiku Abubakar, Peter Obi and Chichi Ojei respectively.

The defendants in the cases are Tinubu, the ruling All Progressives Congress and the Independent National Electoral Commission.

The Tribunal is yet to make an official statement after it reserved judgement.