Presiding Justice of the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal, Justice Mohammed Garba, on Thursday declined to grant a request seeking to strike out the name of the Peoples Democratic Movement from the petition against the return of President Muhammadu Buhari.
In a fresh application brought by his counsel, Morrison Onunu on July 9, the National Chairman said the desire to withdraw from the petition was in the interest of the nation and not for any other consideration. According to the court, pre-hearing in the PDM’s petition was concluded on June 27, 2019 and presentation of the pre-hearing session report fixed for July 10, while the application for withdrawal was filed on July 9.
The court further held that failure of the applicant to obtain leave of court to file outside the pre-hearing session dealt a fatal blow to the application.
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