THE Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal has dismissed the allegations of forgery and conviction levelled against President Bola Tinubu by the Peoples Democratic Party and its 2023 presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar.
According to Punch report, the court, while ruling on motion by the respondents held that though the petitioners claimed that Tinubu did not meet the constitutional requirement to have vied in the election, they did not spell out what the requirement was.
A member of the five-man panel, Moses Ugo, also struck out some paragraphs in which the petitioners accused Kogi State Governor and one Friday Adejo, said to be a Local Government Chairman in Kogi State of electoral irregularities but failed to join them as parties in the petition.
Also, Tribunal has struck out some portions of the reply filed by Atiku Abubakar and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) including that where they accused President Bola Tinubu of having dual citizenship.
In a ruling read by Justice Boloukuoromo Ugo, the court also rejected the aspect where the petituoners claimed that Tinubu was not qualified on grounds of alleged criminal conviction and criminal forfeiture in the United States.
The court held that the information contained in the reply was an attempt to smuggle in fresh evidence to cover for the information they failed to provide in their petition in support if their claim that Tinubu was not qualified.
