The presidential candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party and the Labour Party, Atiku Abubakar and Peter Obi, have petitioned the Presidential Election Court for permission to inspect election materials used in last Saturday’s election.
Atiku and Obi refused to accept defeat in the presidential election on February 25, vowing to fight for their mandate in court.
The two candidates rejected President-elect Bola Tinubu’s conciliation gesture, in which he asked them to support him in the task of building the nation in his acceptance speech after he was declared the winner of the poll on Wednesday.
On Thursday, Atiku and Obi held separate press conferences in Abuja.
To walk their talk, both presidential candidates requested PEC in Abuja to allow them to inspect materials used for the February 25 election.
Their request is contained in two ex-parte motions they filed at the PEC secretariat at the Court of Appeal, Abuja.
Both motions, with the Independent National Electoral Commission and two others as respondents, have been listed for hearing on Friday (today).
