APC, PDP PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION LEGAL BATTLE BEGINS

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), will file its petition at the election tribunal sitting in Abuja (today) Tuesday to challenge the outcome of the presidential election held on Saturday, February 23rd, 2019

PDP National chairman, Uche Secondus, who disclosed this to newsmen on Monday at the party’s expanded caucus meeting held at its national secretariat, Wadata Plaza, Abuja, said the decision of the party to seek legal redress was largely informed by the brazen rigging of the polls by the All Progressives Congress, APC.

He alleged that staff of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, were intimidated to carry out the bidding of the ruling party.

Secondus also alleged that Muhammadu Buhari-led government used ”the military to harass the electorate in some parts of the country in the course of the elections”.

He said: “Nothing will make us waver in the pursuit of justice. The decision to go to court has been finalised and the process has begun.

”No matter what anyone will do or what the APC will say, we will seek justice to the highest court of the land.

”What happened during this election has never happened in the history of this country.”