By Kayode Sanni-Arewa
The Presidential Election Petition court in Abuja has rejected two motions filed by the Peoples Democratic party and its presidential candidate Atiku Abubakar against the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), President-elect Bola Tinubu, and the All Progressives Congress. In the first motion marked CA/PEC/13m/2023, Atiku and the PDP requested the court's permission to observe the reconfiguration of the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (INEC) machines by INEC officials.
While the second motion (exparte) filed on March 14 sought an order from the court to serve court documents on Tinubu and the APC by substituted means, namely by serving their papers on their staff or posting it on their premises. Ifeanyi Iboko, solicitor for the PDP, stated that he had filed a notice of discontinuance during Wednesday's hearing.
He explained that he is withdrawing the motions because they have been rendered obsolete by recent events.
