Barely 48 hours after the Action Alliance ( AA) withdrew its petition challenging the declaration of the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, as winner of the presidential election, another party, the Action People’s Party (APP), on Wednesday, followed suit.
Five out of the 18 political parties that contested the February 25 presidential election had approached the Presidential Election Petition Court to challenge the emerge of Tinubu as President-elect.
The petitioners, which include the AA, APP, Labour Party (LP), Allied People’s Movement (APM) and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), had hinged their petitions on grounds ranging from non-compliance, corrupt practices and other malpractices.
While some of them claimed they won the poll and should be declared winner by the court, others are seeking for cancellation of the poll and a fresh one conducted.
It also alleged that the president elect does not meet the educational qualification for election into the office of the president as at the time of his election and that Tinubu did not score the majority of lawful votes cast at the election, adding that the votes of 8,796,726 ascribed to him was a result of corrupt practices, vote buying, over voting, falsification/alteration and mutilation of results.
They prayed the court to hold that the declaration of Tinubu as the winner of the election is invalid, null and void.