BEVERLY HILLS, August 21, (THEWILL) – The Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC) has reserved judgment to a date to be communicated to parties.
A five-man panel of the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal headed by Justice Mohammed Garba made this known on Wednesday while adjourning proceedings after parties adopted their final written addresses and made their final submissions.
The respondents in the petition by Atiku Abubakar and the PDP are: INEC, President Muhammadu Buhari and the APC.
Dr Levi Uzoukwu, who led the petitioners’ legal team insisted in his final written address that President Buhari’s claim that he submitted his certificates to the Military Board has been controverted by the Secretary to the Military Board.
Lawyers to INEC, President Buhari and the All Progressives Congress, however, urged the Tribunal to dismiss the petition with substantial cost for lacking in merit and substance.
They argued that the nation’s law only requires a candidate to be educated up to secondary school level or its equivalent.
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