Presidential Election Petition Court, has confirmed Wednesday as date for judgment in the three petitions challenging the outcome of the 2023 presidential election.
Chief Registrar of the Court of Appeal, Umar Bangari confirmed the date to newsmen on Monday.
Bangari said everything has been put in place to ensure that the judgment in the three petitions pending before the court is delivered hitch free.
They are the petitions filed by the Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP), Abubakar Atiku, the Labour Party and it’s Presidential candidate, Peter Obi and that of the Allied Peoples Movement, (APM).
Bangari said that adequate security had been put in place and that only the invited members of political parties and the general public would be allowed into the court room.This, he said, was to avoid congestion and security breaches.
He also said that media houses that wished to televise the judgment live would be allowed to do so but at no cost to the court.
Recall that on June 23, Abubakar closed his case after calling 27 out of the 100 witnesses and tendered electoral documents.
Obi called 13 witnesses.
The legal team of President Tinubu, Vice President Kashim Shettima also closed defence in the petition filed by Obi after calling one witness.
The legal team of Tinubu had proposed to call 39 witnesses, but closed its defence after its witness in chief, the Senate Majority Leader, Michael Bamidele testified.
