The Action Alliance (AA) and its Presidential candidate, Solomon David Okanigbuan, withdrew their Petition challenging Bola Tinubu’s declaration as the winner of the February 25 presidential election on Monday.
At the start of the pre-hearing session of the Presidential Election Petition Court in Abuja, counsel for the petitioners, Oba Maduabuchi (SAN), moved for the petition to be withdrawn.
“We have a motion filed on May 3 seeking an order of the court for the withdrawal of our petition, and upon withdrawal, the petition should be dismissed,” Maduabuchi says.
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Following the respondents’ failure to object, Justice Haruna Tsamani led a five-member panel of Justices in granting the request for the petition’s withdrawal and dismissing it.
With the dismissal of the AA’s and its presidential candidate’s petition, the president-elect now faces four petitions challenging his election.
The petitions currently before the court are those of Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Peter Obi of the Labour Party (LP), the Action Peoples Party (APP), and the Allied Peoples Movement (APM), who seek the nullification of Tinubu’s election on the grounds of substantial noncompliance with the provisions of the Constitution, the Electoral Act, and INEC’s guidelines for the conduct of the election.
