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2019 election petitions across Nigeria increase to 766

In a statement made available to PREMIUM TIMES, the Deputy Chief Registrar, Election Petitions Tribunal, Court of Appeal, Rabi Abdulazeez, said the number of petitions filed by politicians and their parties had risen to 766 as of April 16.

The data also showed that the number of presidential election petitions remained four, same as it was on April 4. The breakdown of the petitions filed so far as released by the Court of Appeal on Tuesday is as follows: House of Representatives election, 101; Senate, 207; governorship, 54; state Houses of Assembly, 402; and presidential, 4.

One of such petitions marked CA/PEPC/002/2019 was filed on March 18 by the Peoples Democratic Party and its candidate, Atiku Abubakar.

 

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