Former Vice president and presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Abubakar Atiku and his counterpart in the Labour Party, LP, Peter Obi are conspicuously absent at the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal where judgment in their petitions are to be delivered.
Apart from Bauchi State governor, Bala Mohammed, no notable politician from the PDP is in court.
However, Labour Party was represented by Julius Abure, the national chairman of the party.
This news platform could not immediately ascertain the reasons for their conspicuous absence.
At the time of this report, the Tribunal members led by Justice Haruna Simon Tsammani have started delivering judgment in the three petitions.
Justice Tsammani has ordered that judgment in the petition of Peter Obi and Labour party be first delivered.
In one of the rulings, Kashim Shettima’s alleged double nomination was considered a pre-election matter, adding that the Court has no jurisdiction to hear same.
“A pre- election matter is not an all- comers affair!”
