On Wednesday, the Presidential Election Petition Court in Abuja dismissed two motions filed by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, against the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), President-elect Bola Tinubu, and the All Progressives Congress (APC) (APC).
In the first motion, titled CA/PEC/13m/2023, Atiku and the PDP asked the court for permission to observe INEC employees reconfiguring the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) devices.
The second petition (ex-parte) filed on March 14 requested an order from the court to serve Atiku’s processes on Tinubu and the APC in other ways, either by serving their court documents on APC staff or posting them on the grounds of the APC’s National Headquarters in Abuja.
However, before the petitions could be heard, counsel for Atiku and the PDP, Mr Ifeanyi Iboko, notified the court that he had filed a notice of discontinuance regarding the two applications.
The lawyer explained that he withdrew the motions because recent events had overtaken them.
In a brief ruling, the Court of Appeal dismissed the two motions.
