Court has given Peter Obi a deadline to current petitions in opposition to Tinubu’s election.

NewsOnline studies that the Presidential Election Petition Court, PEPC, has ordered the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, LP, Mr Peter Gregory Obi, and his get together to current their joint petition in opposition to the February 25 presidential election inside three weeks.

The court docket additionally ordered the President-elect, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, who’s the goal of the petition, to defend his victory on the election together with the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, inside 5 days.

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Obi, by means of his counsel, Professor Awa Kalu SAN, had requested for seven weeks to ascertain their allegations in opposition to the disputed election that produced Tinubu.

Chairman of the Court, Justice Haruna Simon Tsammani, issued the order on Tuesday whereas presenting the pre-hearing periods report of the Court.

Among others, Justice Tsammani ordered that Obi should open his petition for listening to on May 30 and finish similar on June 23.

The Court mentioned that it arrived on the resolution due to the restricted time inside which the petition should be disposed off.

Immediately after the order of the Court was handed down, Obi, who was in court docket to witness the proceedings, took permission from the court docket and left on the bottom that they had been going to arrange for the complete blown listening to of the petition.

Meanwhile, the Court has ordered the consolidation of the petitions in order to make sure expeditious listening to.

The Court threw out the vehement objection of Tinubu and the All Progressives Congress, APC, to the consolidation.

Details later.