The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in the disputed Nigerian election Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, on Tuesday was present in court to attend the adoption of addresses by parties in the disputed election.
The former vice president of Nigeria arrived in company with many of his loyalists who expressed hopes that the victory of the winner of the election, Bola Tinubu would be upturned.
The Justice Haruna Tsammani-led five-member panel of the court had on the last adjourned date directed parties to prepare their final briefs of argument and appear before it to adopt .
The court, in a notice to the parties, invited them to adopt their written address with respect to the petition filed against
and Vice -President Kashim Shettima, praying the court to nullify their election.
It will be recalled that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), had on March 1, announced that Tinubu of the ruling All Progressives Congress, (APC), won the presidential election ahead of 17 other candidates that participated in the contest.
It declared that Tinubu scored 8,794,726 votes to defeat the two major contenders, Atiku of the PDP, who came second with 6,984,520 votes, and Mr Peter Obi of the Labour Party, who came third with 6,101,533 votes.
However, dissatisfied with the outcome of the election, both Atiku and Obi approached the court to invalidate it.
The duo, in their separate petitions, claimed that they won the presidential poll, even as they challenged Tinubu’s eligibility to contest the election.
The petitioners are praying the court to nullify the election and order a fresh presidential election, with the exclusion of President Tinubu whom they argued was ab-initio, not qualified to participate.