Wednesday will be a historical one for Nigeria as a landmark judgement will be delivered.
It is that of the much awaited verdict of the Presidential Election Petition Court as it has confirmed Wednesday as date for judgment in the three petitions challenging the outcome of the 2023 presidential election.
Chief Registrar of the Court of Appeal, Mr Umar Bangari, confirmed the date to judiciary correspondents on Monday.
According to Bangari, everything has been put in place to ensure that the judgment in the three petitions pending before the court is delivered hitch free.
They are the petitions filed by the Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP), Abubakar Atiku; the Labour Party and its Presidential candidate, Mr Peter Obi ;and that of the Allied Peoples Movement, (APM).
Bangari alluded to the fact that adequate security had been put in place and that only the invited members of political parties and the general public would be allowed into the court room.
This, he said, was to avoid congestion and security breaches.
He also said that media houses that wished to televise the judgment libe would be allowed to do so but at no cost to the court.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that on June 23, Abubakar closed his case after calling 27 out of the 100 witnesses and tendered electoral documents.
Obi called 13 witnesses.
The legal team of President Tinubu, Vice President Kashim Shettima also closed defence in the petition filed by Obi after calling one witness.
The legal team of Tinubu had proposed to call 39 witnesses, but closed its defence after its witness in chief, the Senate Majority Leader, Michael Bamidele testified.
Led in evidence by Tinubu’s lawyer, Wole Olanipekun, Bamidele told the court that the votes secured by Tinubu in Kano state were not properly recorded and Tinubu had a shortfall of10,929 votes.
