Atiku Abubakar, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate for president, and his party will conclude their argument in their joint appeal on June 22 disputing the announcement of Bola Ahmed Tinubu as the winner of the presidential election on February 25.
According to a pre-hearing report, the petitioners were scheduled to conclude their case on Tuesday, but their lead attorney, Chief Chris Uche (SAN), informed the Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC) that they had lost two of the days allotted to them and pleaded for the return of those two days.
The petitioners have only submitted 25 witnesses thus far, despite stating to the court during the pre-hearing conference that they would call 100 witnesses.
Speaking with newsmen, Counsel to the petitioners said, they might call additional five witnesses to have a round figure of 30 witnesses.
Uche said some of the documents to be tendered in the remaining two days would take the place of the remaining 70 witnesses.
“We are closing our case on Thursday, it was supposed to end today (Tuesday) but because we lost two days, one of which was the June 12 public holiday, the court graciously extended our time by two days”, Uche told newsmen after the proceedings.
